wailer

Example Sentences

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Way is a lauded wailer, but his growl is just as potent.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2022

All that was left was to see if this leonine wailer could get on board with the direction Page wanted to go.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2018

For many Nixon-haters, he is the character Rip Torn excoriated in Blind Ambition, or the mad wailer incarnated by Philip Baker Hall in Robert Altman’s Secret Honor.

From Time • Aug. 9, 2014

LaVette the soul wailer singing oldies-but-goodies by the Beatles?

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2010

While at the present day a very talented wailer improvises a new plaint, which her associates take up and perpetuate, the ancient forms are generally used.

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence