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Example sentences for "howling"

Lexicographically close words:
howl; howld; howled; howler; howlers; howlings; howls; howlt; howly; hown
  1. I realized what a sight I must look, and I could hardly blame Eddie for howling in derision at me when he drew near enough to distinguish my outline through the downpour.

  2. This evening the roaring of the bulls in the gang near us is terrific, and these sounds are mingled with the howling of large packs of wolves, which regularly attend upon them, and the hoarse screaming of hundreds of ravens flying over head.

  3. The merrymaking sounded to the visitors more like the howling of a pack of fiends, for it bore no resemblance to any human sounds they had ever heard.

  4. Great howling gusts came down from the mountain, carrying sheets of driving rain.

  5. He heard his children crying--fairly howling for bread.

  6. They were pushing and staggering, howling and fighting, in reckless disregard of the comfort of others, and before she knew it she was in the midst of a drunken brawl.

  7. The howling has taken away all my appetite," whimpered the tailor; "blown it completely away, as it were.

  8. Scarce was this dangerous work over before a distant howling was heard.

  9. But whatever it may be, it's howling on the other side of the house now.

  10. They make a great howling noise, which is very shrill and mournful, and appear to be in hot pursuit of some unseen quarry.

  11. The Lamper rushed away, whining and howling alternately, and disappeared.

  12. I had been seated only a few minutes when a little pug-dog of hers looked up in the direction of my knees and down towards my feet, growling and howling in a most strange manner.

  13. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness.

  14. Innumerable artifices and stratagems are acted in the Howling Wilderness and in the Great Deep, that can never come to our knowledge.

  15. The howling joy of a savage with twenty scalps at his belt would be tame in comparison to it!

  16. Suddenly there was a pause in the howling around the hut, and then Cnut, looking forth from the loophole, declared that the whole body had gone off at full speed along the path by which they had reached the refuge.

  17. Presently the howl of a wolf was heard near, and soon the solitary call was succeeded by the howling of great numbers of animals.

  18. The horse trembled in every limb at the sound of the howling of the wolves; and cold as was the night, in spite of the great fire that blazed on the hearth, his coat became covered with the lather of fear.

  19. Almost immediately afterward a loud shout for help was heard, followed by the renewed howling and yelping of the wolves.

  20. They keep up a pitiful howling the whole night through.

  21. The dogs are howling in anticipation of danger.

  22. Morning and evening howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise, under which it is difficult to keep up one's buoyancy of spirit.

  23. Among the crowd of howling dervises was a pleasant-looking fellow with a whole pair of pantaloons and a linen duster on.

  24. When he is drunk he is a fiend incarnate, for a howling savage is like a prattling child when compared to a drunken gaucho.

  25. Passengers are carried to and fro in bongoes, managed by a noisy and naked boatman, who inspires alarm in the breast of the nervous passenger, who imagines this gang of savage-looking maniacs are cannibals howling for his blood.

  26. This report of me from a superior officer is a little set-off to the "reprimand" and to the five hundred howling newspapers in the United States.

  27. These men are not howling for their country's good, but their own political advantage, and the people are too big fools to see it.

  28. He heard the wolves howling in the distance, and the night wind screaming as it swept over the snow.

  29. She could hear the coyotes howling hungrily a little way from the cabin, and more terrible still were all the unknown noises of the storm.

  30. And they have never cried unto Me with their heart, but they keep howling on their beds for corn and new wine.

  31. No howling gale disturbed their rest that night, and on the next morning, which was Friday, the third day out, breakfast had been disposed of long before the hour of rising on the previous day.

  32. About four years ago (writes our informant), I saw a poor maniac being dragged along by two or three of her relatives, and howling most piteously.

  33. A "winding sheet" on the candle forebodes death; and dogs howling indicate a similar calamity.

  34. The puppy at his feet was howling uncomforted for the best beloved who was so strangely missing from the delightful combination which he had so joyously accepted in loco parentis.

  35. Because when he was sitting there howling his little heart out, he seemed to look toward you a little oftener than he gazed in my direction.

  36. Anyhow, that orthodox gentleman made a howling error; and received some twenty-five letters and post-cards from kind correspondents who pointed out the mistake.

  37. That moon is so large and luminous that one can imagine a hundred cats howling under it.

  38. At the moment it appeared to be howling through subspace at its hellish rate again, going somewhere.

  39. The Scout ships that had been hunting for the dome went howling in toward it from every direction.

  40. Young and old of both genders pressed about us in a multitude--a very howling mob.

  41. That terrestrial paradise for the hunter, the valley of the pellucid Mtambu, was deserted by us the next morning for the settlement commonly known to the Wakawendi as Imrera's, with as much unconcern as though it were a howling desert.

  42. The aspect of the Ungerengeri valley was completely changed--from a Paradise it was converted into a howling waste.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "howling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.