- present participle of wail.
wailing
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Half of the assembled musicians played on the film’s original soundtrack; star trumpet soloist Bijon Watson can even be seen wailing in the Lighthouse jazz scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
During Arbaeen, they show their grief, mourning with weeping and wailing in memory of Hussein.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
"Woken by huge bangs and wailing siren," he texted.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
With Mr. Frampton wailing on guitar, “Doobie Wah” has a hard-rock core but a rollicking Doobie Brothers feel akin to that group’s 1972 hit “Listen to the Music.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
I leaned down and gave the wailing Pudding a sniff.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
It’s more like a Wagnerian music-drama, a somber story built around intimations of doom and orchestrated with a soundtrack of pounding drums and high-pitched wailings and ululations.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2021
During one Loueke showcase, his distorted voice occupied the same trebly range as his guitar wailings and scrapings.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2017
I get annoyed by Alejandro González Iñárritu’s self-aggrandizement, his operatic wailings on the behalf of genius artists besieged by critics.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2015
He testily advised him “to leave the predictions of Cassandra and the wailings of Jeremiah backstage.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2010
Seemingly insensible and hard to himself, he was not so to the just wailings of the unhappy.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
