Read full poem →in the smoke, a tarnished coronet gleams dully. Overhead hammers and chinks
the rain. Fearfully wails the wind down distant corridors, and there comes
the swish and sigh of rushes lifted off the floors. The arras blows sidewise
Dictionary Entry
A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
In a Sentence
“She let out a loud, doleful wail.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. wailswails loud
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Poetry examples for “wails”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Or what is writ on the brow of the babe as the mother wails for the day
When it leaped in the light of the sun and babbled its pure delight?
Read full poem →The inks of Erebus he found;
Rehearsed to men the damned wails
On which the seraph music sails,