Used in a Sentence

howling

How to use howling in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for howling.

Editorial note

At least you're not on the logo design thread I'm howling at.

Examples14
Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a long loud emotional utterance; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of howling gathered in one view.

noun

a long loud emotional utterance; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect"

adjective

extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for howling.

noun

a long loud emotional utterance; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect"

adjective

extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"

Example sentences

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At least you're not on the logo design thread I'm howling at.

2

"Why do I find all the really howling bad stuff so close to the databases?

3

Its because if the clause is not in there and your dog is howling all night long they can do nothing.

4

With all due respect, howling "snark" is at least as annoying and creating at least as much noise.

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The use of "howling in isolation" brings up an image of a lonely dog in the dead of night.

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Notice how you can't say that about any story on Reddit, because it's a howling mob of random people?

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The howling gotchas start when you get into the higher level stuff, like multimedia.

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You're not arguing with Grellas so much as cherry picking sentences out of his comment and howling at them in isolation.

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"You're not arguing with Grellas so much as cherry picking sentences out of his comment and howling at them in isolation.

10

There'll be a crowd along in a bit howling about censorship and intolerance and how we shouldn't judge people on their beliefs.

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Complaining about the existence of an existing bug is basically just howling at the moon.

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The author of this piece has the right sense of things but he, like me, winds up at the end basically howling at the moon in frustration over the utterly dispiriting short-term course of events.

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I think this part made it sound nastier:> On this turbulent alien world, the daytime temperature is nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and it possibly rains glass -- sideways -- in howling, 4,500-mph winds.

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And then security or someone else in ops finds some little skunkworks dev system and has a fit because developers don't understand what they're playing with - or worse, they find out about the skunkworks because they get pulled in to fix what developers screwed up, with their own managers howling about who's gonna pay for it...So to me, the beauty of DevOps is getting dev and ops working together in concert from the start to create a consistent development/production environment, where the same automation can be used to maintain both.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use howling in a sentence?

At least you're not on the logo design thread I'm howling at.

What does howling mean?

a long loud emotional utterance; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect"

What part of speech is howling?

howling is commonly used as noun, adjective.