howl
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“The howl of wolves,” we are told, “still filled the night air.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
"It is a howl of pain," said one minister, reflecting that so many people in the Labour Party this weekend are hurting.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
"It's okay to jump up and down and howl at the moon," he added.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
It’s easier to howl at a classic like “Dr. Strangelove,” which mocked the leaders giddyuping the planet’s destruction, than at a present-day satire where we ourselves are the joke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
If Katz made a sound, it was drowned out by the cry that tore from Frankie’s lips, as much a frantic sob as a howl of fury.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Predictably, Auburn’s faculty has responded with howls of outrage, decrying these intrusions on the faculty’s authority over academic operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Loudspeakers at O-World, which has been closed to visitors since Neukgu's escape, have been blaring wolf howls and park announcements - the ones that Neukgu grew up listening to.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Short-range cues still matter: ravens might be following signals like wolf howls to find fresh kills at shorter distances.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
But the response that drew howls was to someone who said he had invested in all of Palihapitiya’s SPACs.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
The wind howls through the gaps in the trees and beats us back a few steps.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
At a Halloween dog parade in the East Village, Poppy, Thrun’s Frenchie, lay in the sun dressed as a taco while the ancestral gray wolves howled in their graves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
By daybreak, the winds from Typhoon Fung-wong which had howled all night had died down, and people came out to see the damage.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
“What in the wide world of football are you doing?” he howled at a player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
With howled, deadpan lyrics like on “Join in the Chant,” McCarthy set a template for how punk’s urgency could lock into dance music’s meticulousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
“And what of poor Gurgi?” howled the creature.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
Ferrari quotes a 0-62 mph acceleration of 3.3 seconds—and then comes the long, muffled howling in third and fourth gear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
We know that some of those mothers are still howling for help.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
But some residents aren’t so enthused with the nightly howling, saying that it’s disruptive and keeps them from getting a full night’s sleep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
A star-struck public was howling for his inclusion, blind to the weekly evidence that he was nowhere near the player he used to be.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
On that occasion, too, they had heard something unexpected, a mysterious howling sound that came from behind that very same wall.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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