wail

If you’ve wondered what would happen when a garage-rocker cowboy is joined by a punk who likes the Western wail of steel guitars, look no further than “Blame the Clown.”

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

At each siren wail, the musicians were trained to dive for cover - sometimes mid-session.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Some people, like Anna Shilanski, are choosing to spend their nights underground to avoid having to wake up and rush downstairs when air raid sirens wail in the wee hours.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

Police and firefighter sirens wail in the distance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

But this wail is like a clap of thunder.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

As Elvis wails the line, “And I miss her,” from his cover ballad about a bad husband, we see a shot of Elvis’ dead mother, Gladys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Near Kelly: Set against the Teton Range, the movie “Shane” ends with Alan Ladd in the title role riding away on his horse while little Joey wails, “Shane! SHANE! Come back!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

“My grandmother was a sharecropper in Arkansas, and I know that this is the same thing,” a man shouts at one point as whistles shrill and a handheld siren wails.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026

So the next time you mimic those lung-busting wails at karaoke or hear “What’s Up?” used in a movie or on TV show, you can marvel at the song’s timeless solace.

From Salon ● May 26, 2025

The instant their parents saw scythes stepping out of the helicopter, they gathered their children and hurried away, ignoring their children’s wails of protest.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Women dressed in black robes wailed over the bodies, one of which was draped in Hezbollah's yellow flag - a reflection of the group's support in this largely Shia area.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

They wailed and sang as they beat their chests with their hands, a common mourning ritual in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

Sunday was the test that all championship teams must pass, and the Rams did so with frozen hands and puffy faces and a will that wailed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026

"I wanted to come here desperately, I wanted to see my husband," wailed one woman, who gave her name as Naruemol, as her friend comforted her.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025

The boy wailed in anguish as he threw himself over the side and into the lifeboat.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

This week, with air raid warnings wailing in the distance, Kyiv held a funeral for two sisters.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

They got into another convoy of huge black cars, and with lights flashing and a siren wailing, rolled out of town.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

The 17-year-old Pliny was at Misenum, approximately 18 miles from the volcano, but even there “you could hear the wailing of women, the cries of babies, the shouting of men.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Following the Maytals’ 1968 hit “Do the Reggay,” with its choppy beat, steady rhythm guitar, throbbing bass and wailing horns, Mr. Cliff wrote songs that expressed social and personal themes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Grandmother rocked back and forth, wailing with grief, when she recounted the story.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer