mewl
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Tannahill, now jerked upside down, would mewl and scream and clamber down a wall.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023
The crowd’s roar was more of a mewl.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2021
Here’s a taster: “Its glass eyes seemed to come into proper focus, and then the doll flinched and started to shake. Its mouth fell open, emitting a low, eerie mewl …”
From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2019
And for whatever reason, as confirmed at Town Hall, the most startling of her early-period voices — the piercing, metallic mewl — is mostly gone.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2010
They smiled at each other when they heard her voice for the first time, a cry that started like the mewl of a cat and exploded into a healthy, full- throated yowl.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Vocabulary lists containing mewl
Yelping and Yowling: Synonyms for "Cry"
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Excerpt from "As You Like It"
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