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- noun Plural form of
wail . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wail .
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Examples
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Obama is right to resist the foreclosure wails from the political left.
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You could hear the banshee wails from a block away.
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You could hear the banshee wails from a block away.
October 2007 2007
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I'm not a shoplifter, for Christ's sake, she wails, which is a bit rich, given that Steve and Dan have just caught her shoplifting.
TV review: Secrets of the Shoplifters | Richard Wilson on Hold 2012
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As the day fades, a prayer called wails from the minaret.
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As the day fades, a prayer call wails from the minaret.
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Despite a jacked-up, crackly noise coming from their PA, they put on an energetic set that included a rollicking guitar solo accompanied by wails (vocal wails, that is) from their keyboardist.
Heeb Magazine 2010
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(voice-over): As the day fades, a prayer call wails from a minaret.
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(voice-over): As the day fades, a prayer call wails from a minaret.
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She also emphatically "wails" obtrusively expressing the profundity of her sorrow and dissatisfactioneach and "every morning" (8: 11), demonstrating in the process her unflagging "determination to awaken those around her" (Linkin 192).
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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