12 example sentences using wail.
Wail used in a sentence
Wail in a sentence as a noun
They wail as the tide claims it, feeling the sting of failure.
It might change whether I'm willing to do business with them, but I'm not going to wail and rant and **** and moan.
And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.- Charlie Parker
They only ever got into the results through SEO, and then they wail when the algorithm improves to kick them out.
If you wanted to roll your own pseudo-objects with well designed nested hashes though you could really wail.
Managers frequently wail about skill shortages, but very often it's pure hypocrisy.
Wail in a sentence as a verb
However, as Americans wail that college costs are too high, the government attempts to "help" by subsidizing the costs through various means.
If you want you can fight the market and then wail about morality when the inevitable economic consequences ensue.
"The world is divided into those who get this truth and those who wail,..."Is Dawkins making a joke here, or is he falling into the same fallacy he is deriding in the article.
"Compare this to situations in the UK where if a shopkeeper returns nearly all your change, but keeps a penny, the customer will often wail until they get it, and make a fuss about it.
From all the land rises the hunger wail, from Ghetto and countryside, from prison and casual ward, from asylum and workhouse—the cry of the people who have not enough to eat. Millions of people, men, women, children, little babes, the blind, the deaf, the halt, the sick, vagabonds and toilers, prisoners and paupers, the people of Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, who have not enough to eat.
HN found a new excuse to wail on its least favourite language!I don't want to come off as a spoil sport, but can you please edit your comment into something insightful and/or constructive?As for myself, I will spin this into a question: What existing javascript library or program would most likely benefit from being able to run on this device?
Wail definitions
a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"
See also: lament lamentation plaint
emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow"