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wailing

way ling

  • n  loud cries made while weeping
  • v  emit long loud cries
  • v  cry weakly or softly
  • s  vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
    wailing mourners
    the wailing wind

  • This song, oddly, starts with him wailing almost exactly like Robert Plant in Kashmir.
  • In the corner of the room, a tiny baby--3 hours old--lay on a bed, wailing, swaddled in bright-colored African fabric.
  • In all my years as a journalist I had never seen anything like this: a ragtag army with wailing families in tow, beseeching me to take news of their plight to the outside world.
News & Articles

  • Attendees say higher admission price reduces Bessie Smith Strut crowds (with video, slideshow)
    With sunlight filtering through a haze of barbecue smoke and a soundtrack of wailing blues guitars and sidewalk vendors touting the superiority of their pulled pork, Monday night's Bessie Smith Strut looked, sounded and smelled like it always has.
    June 11, 2013 - Chattanooga Times Free Press
  • Photos: State 1A Champs in Girls Track and Creative Writing have firetruck parade
    A Firetruck parade of State Champions is a noteworthy occasion. With lights blazing and sirens wailing, the two James River High School state 1A champion teams chugged down Main Street, Buchanan on top of firetrucks. A car from Georgia closely followed the Firetruck parade of State champs on Sunday afternoon in Buchanan. Apparent tourists driving [...]
    June 10, 2013 - Roanoke Times
  • Scandal behind him, founding pastor returns to Cobb’s Trinity Chapel
    Amid wailing rock guitar chords, dabbed tears, joyous cheers of affirmation and standing ovations, Jim Bolin was installed as senior pastor of Trinity Chapel in an emotional service that stretched nearly 2 1/2 hours Sunday at the Powder Springs megachurch.
    June 9, 2013 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Quotes

  • Shaun Keaveny in Telegraph.co.uk
    Keaveny said of Frusciante: "His range, from minimalist melody lines, through choppy Hendrixian chord voicings, all the way up to eleven with wailing metal tinged blues, gives him the edge over many in the list. For that I salute him."
  • Brett Quigley in CNN International
    I was with her and then we hear this baby start wailing. They cleaned her up for me and she was crying and crying and crying,Quigley said. "The nurses handed her to me and I held her for the first time and she stopped."
  • Ayman al-Zawahri in CBS News
    Obama's message to the Muslim World was delivered when he visited the Wailing wall, with the Jewish skullcap on his head:when he performed the Jewish prayers despite claiming that he is Christian,Zawahiri said, reminding his audience of...

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