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How to use wails in a sentence

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Tales of girls who had gotten pregnant were whispered in the dormitories at night in horror-stricken voices like muted wails.
Ellington could swing with the strains of Egypt as much as the wails of Harlem.
In one corner of the dressing room, Tilly wails upon beholding her face under the harsh strip lights.
Trees absorb the siren wails, clanging of trash cans, and other sounds of urban life.
She has warmly wrapped her heart around 11 honky-tonk torch songs with more authentic wails than a lonesome prairie wolf.
Tate's sobs and the anguished wails of relatives will not do much to change that.
The choruses consist of some Mark Solomon-like wails, followed by screaming of such ferocity that it is almost disturbing.
Mrs Greenwood recalls hearing the wails and screams of patients in the night and her first death in the wards.
The noise downstairs escalated quickly from whispers and murmuring voices to sobs and wails.
Screaming guitars and tortured wails were the tools used to pound the passion into each song and the listeners into dejected submission.
Last year's plaintive wails about the attacks on A Beautiful Mind are child's play in comparison.
More screams and wails of pain hung in the air, and then she heard her name.
He should be able to stay in reasonable shape while he wails for his fractured left ankle to heal.
They just adore tiptoeing around and shaking their heads when the broads shatter glass with their banshee wails.
I heard his maniacal giggle across the house, together with the wails of his baby.
He feels a sleepless night ahead, filled with tearless agony, wails of frustration again emptying.
We're quite expert at it, so the complaining shrieks and wails she utters are nothing to do with pain.
Knotty-pine wails, white tablecloths, and a sprinkling of artwork and Western memorabilia create a pleasingly rustic yet romantic ambience.
The screams of terror, cries of agony, were now replaced by despairing wails and echoing voices of mournful weepers.
The sound of sirens wails through the apartment but the couple are now used to it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Outside in the open was heard the clash of arms, plaintive wails and lamentations of the tangi for the dead.
The rooms, choke-full of misery, sent piercing shrieks and wails and groans out into the night.
It is my belief that vultures and other raptorial birds do not recognise in the screams of their victims the wails of pain.
In seconds the room was filled with unearthly hoots and wails and whistles.
She lowered her voice to inaudibility, she raised it to shrieks and wails.
For babies, the discomfort can cause ear-piercing wails, making the flight painful for all on board.
They had not traversed many steps of the long main staircase when he stopped, and stared at the roof and round at the wails.
Ida had retired, and the distant wails of the bugle showed that she was upstairs in her boudoir.
She weeps and wails in chromatics and scales that quite touch Arsaces.
His sleep was broken by infant wails and visions of a phantom figure pacing noiselessly to and fro in the watches of the night.
Many things happened during the hours in which she slept so heavily, but she was not disturbed by the wails and the sound of things being carried in and out of the bungalow.
As the gaily plumaged creature fluttered to earth its companions and the little monkeys set up a most terrific chorus of wails and screaming protests.
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