keener

Example Sentences

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"It was the guttural voices of the keeners, there's only three recordings and all three are just so poignant and they're so different," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

Halperin’s trial will only involve 40 participants, so many keeners will have to be turned away once they’ve been screened.

From The Verge • Nov. 20, 2014

We were the mosher keeners because Mr. Davison was so cool.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

But if when any one died Came keeners hoarser than rooks, He bade them give over their keening; For he was a man of books.

From Poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

The keeners were swaying themselves to and fro, there where they waited in the next room.

From Strangers and Wayfarers by Jewett, Sarah Orne