Sentences with wail
wail
W w - The women began to wail in mourning. [VERB]
- Wails of grief were heard as visitors filed past the site of the disaster. [+ of]
- A saxophone wailed in the background.
- “No! I don't want to go!” he wailed.
- 'Now look what you've done!' Shirley wailed. [VERB with quote]
- Police cars, their sirens wailing, accompanied the lorries. [VERB]
- The child started wailing after she stumbled and fell.
- She wailed that the vacation was ruined.
- The wind wailed in the trees
- The wind wailing in the trees
- To the film's final act in which the visible universe is blotted out like a typing error as Dead Can Dance wail on the soundtrack.
- The wail of sirens has brought Israel to a standstill for two minutes in solemn remembrance of six million Jews killed by the Nazis.
- To wail someone's death
- She let out a loud, doleful wail.
- The wail of snow-dark winter winds. A bird's wail in the night.
- The wind wailed and the rain streamed down.
- To wail one's death
- At Boston's Roseland, as "the Count's band was wailing," he grabbed Mamie, an avid dancer. The "band was screaming when she kicked off her shoes and got barefooted
- To wail with pain.
- To wail the dead; to wail one's fate.
- To wail one's grief.
- The wail of an old tune.