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wale

[wayl] / weɪl /


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The fugues, meanwhile, weave something more like the wale of a domestic fabric.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2022

So there will be swimming, swinging, climbing, leaping and harpooning from tall, bent-steel pipes that form the ship and ribs of the great white wale.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016

The rapper then launched into a not-suitable-for-work rant against a former magazine editor who tweeted, “if i’m trump i’m pushing the narrative that obama really put wale on his playlist in an effort to undermine his administration.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2016

Resoled in Saratoga, riveting in a wide wale suit, I use law, Ed.

From Time ● Apr. 4, 2015

He had descried the bright blue lifeboat with the red wale round her gunwale, and was running to meet her in the direction she was heading.

From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor

Ay," said Mrs. M'Cosh, "he's waited lang, but he's waled weel in the end.

From Penny Plain by O. Douglas

All nite long the bereaved inmates uv that wunst happy but now distracted home wept and waled in agony wich wuz perfectly heart rendin.

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast

I waled straight to Edmee's room, knocked, and entered at once.

From Mauprat by Stanley Young

Seeing I must have sorrow, for I p. 64have sinned, O Preserver of mankind, Thou hast waled and selected out for me a joyful sorrow—an honest, spiritual, glorious sorrow. 

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte

Cast yourself at His feet, and see if you do not get at His hands as rare an outgate and as wonderfully waled a cross as the very best of them got.

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte

Through sobbing and waling, he said he was sorry and couldn’t believe it had happened.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2015

Forced crying and waling is a big thing is North Korea.

From The Verge ● Dec. 28, 2014

White Sox starter John Danks lasted six innings, giving up one run on three hits while waling four and striking out three.

From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 17, 2014

“It was all so beautiful,” she said, waling past the headquarter’s once grand entrance.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2012

They were once waling in a crowded street, and the Rabbi requested Elijah to point out any in the throng destined to occupy places in Paradise.

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Paul Radin


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