howl
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Baseball has a bleak history of wealthy owners unwilling to open up their wallets when it matters most—why howl about a team that unabashedly does?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Cosmo itched so much from allergies that he constantly scratched himself raw and unleashed a howl when we were gone for too long, so loud and haunting that my neighbor thought it was a siren.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
"It is a howl of pain," said one minister, reflecting that so many people in the Labour Party this weekend are hurting.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
"It's okay to jump up and down and howl at the moon," he added.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
He swayed back and forth in a rocking motion and made a whistling howl, like that last, dying wheeze of a damp log in a fire.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Prior renovations to 24 Sussex have drawn howls of outrage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Short-range cues still matter: ravens might be following signals like wolf howls to find fresh kills at shorter distances.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
But the response that drew howls was to someone who said he had invested in all of Palihapitiya’s SPACs.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
Karen howls in a video Kaley posted to Instagram as a teenager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
Their bodies were heaving like laughter, but the laughs sounded more like growls and howls and snorts.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
By daybreak, the winds from Typhoon Fung-wong which had howled all night had died down, and people came out to see the damage.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
Customers howled at the delays and the random order in which the maps appeared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
They veiled the stage in gauze on “Copy of A,” casting dozens of Reznor shadows while he strutted and howled about a despondent, depersonalized modernity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Smoke was heavy, she said, and the air howled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025
Mamá howled, her anger propelling her into action.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
A star-struck public was howling for his inclusion, blind to the weekly evidence that he was nowhere near the player he used to be.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Muharemović hit the pitch, howling in pain, and was treated on the field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Caspian “C-Bird” Hollywell’s wide-eyed, frenetic energy and howling vocals come up against the sweet, mournful steel pedal guitar of suit-and-tie-wearing “Razor” Ramon Santos.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Videos he’s posted show them howling with laughter while dozens of fat fish jump all around them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
In fact, most of the audience seemed to think the sudden appearance onstage of three howling children was part of the show.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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