caterwauling

Example Sentences

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Playboi Carti Playboi Carti was the only headline-tier act who did not broadcast his show on the Flog Gnaw livestream, leaving reams of Opium record label superfans caterwauling in the comments.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

Meaning, he's accustomed to getting his winks in around random 2 a.m. caterwauling slaps in the face.

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2023

Here, Haxton reminds me that there’s something spectacular in the caterwauling nine lives of a cat, and if that’s not an intelligence all its own, of course the tests don’t matter.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

She is a caterwauling singer, a graceless dancer, a cheerful butcher of good sense and the English language.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2020

For three days Samuel lay in bed, fighting the fever phantoms and putting names to them too, before his great strength broke down the infection and drove it caterwauling away.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck