Example Sentences

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Anh Vo will wail at the ocean’s edge.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2021

I, like most everyone who flies, understand that children will wail, scream and kick seats.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2016

And blessed is the man who finds winds that will wail with him, and skies that love him enough to weep in sympathy.

From The Hills of Hingham by Sharp, Dallas Lore

Thankt will wail With dry tears Baldur’s bale-fire.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann

Lawrence Challoner, the time will come when you will wail and whine and wonder why I don't come to you—why it is not my footsteps that you hear!

From The Red Mouse by Osborne, William Hamilton