- 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
"For two hours I kept crying and wailing," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
During Arbaeen, they show their grief, mourning with weeping and wailing in memory of Hussein.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
From it, the wailing grew louder, and Taran felt a cold ribbon of air on his face.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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
I get annoyed by Alejandro González Iñárritu’s self-aggrandizement, his operatic wailings on the behalf of genius artists besieged by critics.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2015
He testily advised him “to leave the predictions of Cassandra and the wailings of Jeremiah backstage.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2010
The farmer and his family were glad enough to close up their shutters, and shut out as much as possible the wailings of the wind, as it swept in furious gusts round the house.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
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