mewl
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But then I hear Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton mewl, and I’m suddenly hoping alongside Anita that someone vanquishes their foes with an unassailable vision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
The crowd’s roar was more of a mewl.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2021
Here’s a taster: “Its glass eyes seemed to come into proper focus, and then the doll flinched and started to shake. Its mouth fell open, emitting a low, eerie mewl …”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019
And for whatever reason, as confirmed at Town Hall, the most startling of her early-period voices — the piercing, metallic mewl — is mostly gone.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2010
They smiled at each other when they heard her voice for the first time, a cry that started like the mewl of a cat and exploded into a healthy, full- throated yowl.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
“You’re using a lot of words I don’t fully understand,” mewls Ainsley.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025
The rest of the time, Cedillo spoke in the mewls of a man who once roared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
It thrashes pieces of the box aside and mewls in confusion as it turns on.
From Slate ● May 30, 2020
The cat, Marie Antoinette, mewls, “Nothing is as it’s supposed to be.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
The new-born babe mewls on the mother's breast, in a hammock formed out of a kerchief.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
There was cat food, a cat litter box and a cat that came in and mewled reliably throughout the day.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
The crowd was hot and restless; people fanned themselves, and toddlers squirmed and mewled on their mother’s laps.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2013
From somewhere inside Bob’s uniform, the skeleton kitten mewled in agreement.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
She mewled and made another run around his ankles.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
George Washington mewled and ran his claws along the side of a box of books, and Mama turned her wrath onto the cat.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
That the drug makers are joining the negotiation process even as they engage in judicial whining and mewling about it may be taken as a testament to the cleverness of the program’s design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Other than those few feline visitors, the only real cat energy came from an enchanting handful of sweetly mewling kittens brought by shelter organizations.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
After Din and Bo-Katan say “this is the way” to each other while flying away from Mandalore, Grogu makes a little mewling noise that almost sounds he is repeating the words.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
The '80s edition of the trope is a mewling mess who triumphs by sheer luck or last-second intervention of some other savior, usually a man previously believed to be dead.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
He went on and on, mewling and snuffling.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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