yowl
verb (used without object)
to utter a long, distressful or dismal cry, as an animal or a person; howl.
yowling
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present participleof yowl.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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"It's three-tiered, with a nasal low register, a yowling, cutting middle range and a high register so startlingly clear it sounds like a falsetto," Pareles wrote in a 1987 concert review.
From Reuters ● May 24, 2023
Your cat, yowling pitifully, would vanish in a thick whorl of white papers.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
The yowling prince Lewis Capaldi has made hay from singing himself hoarse, his hits filled with raw eruptions of schlock so potent they transcend past corn into something far more cooked.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Our clingy cat would lose us and wander the two floors, yowling plaintively until we called out, guiding him in like a game of Marco Polo.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Any hound that got snappy with Bertha was promptly corrected, and the pack of yowling beagles provided a noisy but festive escort back to the POE.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
