caterwaul
Example Sentences
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Its “sounds,” she writes, are those “of the busying and tidying of the quietly controlling. The sniveling and whimpering of the long overlooked, the caterwaul of the brokenhearted.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2020
Amid all the caterwaul of Washington comes this calm message:
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2018
His keening caterwaul sounds as if he had flicked the ejector switch but forgotten to undo his seat belt.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2015
What prevented “Sir Simpleton” from a similar fate was Mr. Moran, hammering at a central riff; his bond with Mr. akLaff held firm, and the saxophonists were free to stutter-step and caterwaul around them.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2014
“I wonder why they make that caterwaul noise, all screechy and harsh.”
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
Vocabulary lists containing caterwaul
Into the Wild
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Twelfth Night
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Novel Study: The Great Gatsby, Chapters 1–6
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