- present participle of wail.
wailing
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The 24-year-old figure skater was captured clutching her leg and repeatedly wailing "why?"
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The bold clarity of the performances was energizing, but the wailing sometimes sounded like parody grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
During Arbaeen, they show their grief, mourning with weeping and wailing in memory of Hussein.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
"Woken by huge bangs and wailing siren," he texted.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
Suddenly I heard another wailing, this time from the yard, and remembered Flora.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
It’s more like a Wagnerian music-drama, a somber story built around intimations of doom and orchestrated with a soundtrack of pounding drums and high-pitched wailings and ululations.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021
During one Loueke showcase, his distorted voice occupied the same trebly range as his guitar wailings and scrapings.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2017
He testily advised him “to leave the predictions of Cassandra and the wailings of Jeremiah backstage.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2010
“The same wailings from the new arrivals, the same barking and shouts from the guards,” a character in Atwood’s new novel, The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, recalls of Gilead’s convulsive birth.
From Slate
The band marches in front, with slow and measured tread and muffled drum they move, pouring out their melancholy wailings for the dead—a sadder dirge than which never fell upon mortal ear.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds
