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Example sentences for "wailed"

Lexicographically close words:
waightie; waighty; waik; wail; waile; wailers; wailful; wailing; wailings; wails
  1. She sat on a rock and wept and wailed and was very miserable.

  2. I have no word," wailed the old man from the gloom in the street.

  3. But I want to walk home with you, my child," wailed the sobbing woman.

  4. Even Your Majesty can't make war without pretext," wailed Bertha.

  5. Oh, auntie, my heart is broken, I know it is," wailed Aurora.

  6. Dot is more than I'll do," wailed Herr Muller resignedly as Nat set the auto in motion once more and they left behind them the weakened bridge.

  7. Frau Rosalinde Eysvogel wailed to her daughter as piteously as if the injury had been inflicted on herself.

  8. Among the bare limbs of the deciduous growth the storm wailed and clattered its way on about my head as I felt out the path with my feet for a half mile to a pine-crowned hilltop.

  9. Here in the little sheltered hollow no goblins gibbered, no banshee wailed in the wet wood.

  10. But that is Herr Jensen's room,' wailed the landlord.

  11. That court is the great mart of merriment and misery, and its open doors too often lead to madness; groaning and moaning, when they open or shut, as if the spirits within wailed over those who come in search of wealth, to return disappointed.

  12. Then the conscience of the hump-backed villain smote him, and he wept and wailed over her, until at last the doctor came, felt her pulse, and pronounced her dead.

  13. Fearful at length she looked forth: he was gone: she, wild with amazement, Wailed for her mother aloud: but the wail of the wind only answered.

  14. And before I had time to be more than aware of these things, the tree wailed again at us.

  15. Presently they all became aware of her movement and of nothing else, save that low undercurrent of melody that wailed and sobbed from the delicate instrument, as the player's own emotions ruled her fingers.

  16. And me with a strange roommate," wailed Mabel, also in tears.

  17. My folks won't believe me," wailed Cora, reading her letter from home.

  18. I wish I had my lunch right now," wailed Mabel, dragging her hat into place and stuffing loose locks under it.

  19. There dropt a forest hush on watching Troy, Upon the plain and watching ranks of men; And from a tower some woman keened him then With long thin cry that wavered in the air-- As once before one wailed her Hector there.

  20. Then the soul of the warrior wailed among Rold's dreams, as Rold stood before the sword.

  21. And the wind blew violently, and wailed as it blew, and hundreds of sandy shapes went towering by, and there were little cries among them and the sounds of a passing away.

  22. All night long the women in the hareem of the North have wailed horribly for their hills.

  23. Think of the torture of lying awake all night, and wondering what is going to happen to those poor boys,” wailed Gertrude.

  24. Hippy said he pounded and shouted and howled and wailed and pounded some more.

  25. Vandecar shuddered and shook his head; but before he could speak Cronk wailed dazedly: "Ye might have come and telled me yerself, ye might a knowed how I wanted ye to!

  26. Doggone you, Harry, that don't fit in with my deductions," wailed Anderson.

  27. Behind him Tinkletown raved and wailed over the great calamity, but generally stood impotent in the face of it all.

  28. Maybe he is," almost wailed 'Rast; and Anderson felt sorry for him as he ambled away from the gate and its love-sick guardian.

  29. Has the poor wife or stricken mother wailed long for the answer to that letter, which never came, and will never come?

  30. But I'm wild to get back to the cottage," wailed Nancy.

  31. But I'd 'most rather have a cold than take that stuff," wailed Arabella.

  32. The masterful voice ceased, the tribe wailed their assent, the father arose speechless, his drawn face revealing great agony over this seemingly brief banishment.

  33. Evil will fall upon you,' wailed the Great Tyee.

  34. As Yaada chanted and wailed her farewell she moved slowly towards the edge of the cliff.

  35. So went she to sleep and they covered her face, but now the women wailed loudly and all the men of the household were sent for to come to the hall.

  36. So the old Hebrew warrior wailed in the bitterness of his soul, and The Sword sprang on over the billows, bearing him to his own land, but she was now no longer a warship.

  37. She stretched her hands towards the door, and twice wailed out the words: "Mamma!

  38. She wailed out again in piteous entreaty: "Mamma!

  39. Jeanne, who had sunk down by the window, had wailed out once more, "Mamma!


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