wail
Example Sentences
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“We are here because we have no choice,” Wail Qasim, an activist and journalist who took part in a protest near Heathrow Airport, which serves London, wrote on Twitter.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2016
Although a woman partner of a firm is rare, Wail Street and Women have recently become more familiar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two brothers called Wail and Waleed Alshehri have been missing from their home in the southern part of Saudi Arabia for several months, and their families reportedly identified hijacker photographs.
From Time Magazine Archive
O poet, Blush like a rotted skin; Brighten like a dusty tower; Wail like a happy earthworm; Dream like an enormous flood; Tremble like a red locomotive; Flop like a damp gate!
From Time Magazine Archive
Wail, walls of Rome, and weep, ye tender vales Of sweet Italia!
From Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems by Gilmore, Marion Forster
Vocabulary lists containing wail
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