- present participle of wail.
wailing
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During Arbaeen, they show their grief, mourning with weeping and wailing in memory of Hussein.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The lyrics mention muddy water and Natchez, Miss., and he adds wailing fills on the instrument officially known as a harmonica but which in this context is usually called a “harp.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
This week, with air raid warnings wailing in the distance, Kyiv held a funeral for two sisters.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
The wailing sound you just heard was a Cleveland Browns fan screaming Why do I do this to myself?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
But I’d never heard of the dead sitting up in the funeral home, at the viewing, in front of all the mourners, and wailing his or her fool head off!
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
It’s more like a Wagnerian music-drama, a somber story built around intimations of doom and orchestrated with a soundtrack of pounding drums and high-pitched wailings and ululations.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021
During one Loueke showcase, his distorted voice occupied the same trebly range as his guitar wailings and scrapings.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2017
He testily advised him “to leave the predictions of Cassandra and the wailings of Jeremiah backstage.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2010
“The same wailings from the new arrivals, the same barking and shouts from the guards,” a character in Atwood’s new novel, The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, recalls of Gilead’s convulsive birth.
From Slate
The whole of the grim and gloomy chasm roared with the most appalling sounds, mingled with shriekings and wailings.
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
