mewl

Example Sentences

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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

His voice is often pitched as a fading, neurasthenic mewl, and he shifts between depressive paralysis and frenetic tantrums.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2017

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

She cried—hers was the little mewl I’d heard from outside the door.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson