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How to use wailed in a sentence

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Zack wailed, mortified, his face turning red and giving him the appearance of an overripe tomato.
On seeing me, she wailed mournfully with a mixture of imploration to get her down and shame at her undignified predicament.
In the days following Giblets's glorious conquest of popedom many have wailed in ceaseless abject horror.
Former work and pensions minister Margaret Hodge wailed it would put 6p on tax.
Not one child laughed, no infant wailed, no hawker or crone haggled for staring.
A horrible siren sound wailed across the boat and suddenly, men and weapons erupted on deck.
Sirens wailed and bells sounded in European capitals at noon as leaders and the people observed the tribute to the dead.
As police sirens wailed in the distance, coming ever closer, she called her boys off.
The group, many of them arm in arm, took off their shoes and let the waves lap at their feet while local iwi wailed karakia into the waves.
The CD began playing, guitar riffs wailed and the lead singer of Poison screamed out his lyrics.
Mike was happy to demonstrate a 4-foot robot made of mostly car parts that wailed its arms when controlled by remote.
His voice moaned and wailed, expressing the deepest sorrows of a condemned sinner.
He shrieked and he wailed and he howled and he screeched, until all the air in his lungs left, and then he still yelled.
They had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks, and they wailed horribly in the darkness.
When I wailed about this to the executive in charge of shepherding the Australian through production and distribution, he was expostulatory.
The near dead silence was obliterated as alarms wailed across the loudspeakers.
While the fashion world wailed about the effect of the collapse of the economy on retail, she briskly assumed the leadership role.
Sirens wailed their mournful dirge as they raced towards the hotel.
Now she watched as their bereaved mother caressed the sisters' draped bodies while classmates wailed in unconsolable grief.
I wailed, a sudden sensation of hopelessness washing over me.
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The violin fairly sobbed and groaned and wailed, as if the spirit of unconsolable grief were tugging heavily at the strings.
Hippy said he pounded and shouted and howled and wailed and pounded some more.
The Child sniffed at therapeutics, chewed a thumb, and wailed for her Betsy.
The plane's klaxon horn wailed through the night with a noise audible for miles.
A jolly little supper, wailed the odd man out, seeing pt and lobster slipping irrevocably through his fingers.
The watchers wept and wailed at first, and then fell to eating and drinking.
The whistle wailed against the sky, the gunmen piled on cowcatcher and carsteps.
Pulling her beautiful hair over her face, as the leper of old his mantle, she wailed out.
It wailed through the swaying branches of the trees, and swept our decks in fitful gusts.
He wailed away, filling the air with prophecies of doom and disaster.
The rooms wherein dozens of infants had wailed at their nursing now resounded with the tapping of nascent chicks.
The children woke up and found out that something was wrong, and they wailed and would not be comforted.
Just then the long mourn of a timber wolf wailed in with the wind.
I wailed, gesturing at the Nuit de Tendresse peignoirs as a wave of self-pity broke over me.
The Ayah had been taken ill in the night, and it was because she had just died that the servants had wailed in the huts.
Jo laughed, Meg scolded, Beth implored, and Amy wailed because she couldn't remember how much nine times twelve was.
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