wailing

“I fought for that because I knew no DJ would cut that song off with Neal’s guitar wailing at the end of it. It was too brilliant.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

"For two hours I kept crying and wailing," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

“Like a fox wailing in the nighttime!” exclaimed Balder, stifling his laughter.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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 perusal of his works leaves one with the impression that Voltaire was constantly troubled with a nightmare, in the effort to free himself from which he emitted his lugubrious wailings.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham