caterwauling
Example Sentences
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Playboi Carti Playboi Carti was the only headline-tier act who did not broadcast his show on the Flog Gnaw livestream, leaving reams of Opium record label superfans caterwauling in the comments.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024
Meaning, he's accustomed to getting his winks in around random 2 a.m. caterwauling slaps in the face.
From Salon • Aug. 16, 2023
What’s most surprising, though, is the book’s poignancy amid all its antics and mythological caterwauling.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2022
Lunch’s first band was called Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and one of their songs began with Lunch caterwauling, “The leaves are always dead.”
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021
The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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