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Definition of howling in English: howlingadjectiveˈhaʊlɪŋˈhaʊlɪŋ 1attributive Producing a long, doleful cry or wailing sound. Example sentencesExamples - Silence was broken by howling winds so shrill they sounded like the shrieks of dying people.
- It's got howling vocals that sound like they were recorded inside a volcano.
- The walls screamed with the cold and harsh sound of the howling winds.
- A thunderous roar rent the arrow's howling passage, the sound carrying the taint of pain.
- The wind rushed past my ears, causing a howling sound.
- She heard a strange howling sound in the hills one night.
- She took shelter in Aros Bay, near Tobermory, but during the night her anchor chain parted and she drifted down the sound, driven 10 miles by howling winds and strong tides.
- She tells him about the strange howling sounds she heard outside.
- These fans move a truckload of air, but the catch is the tearing, howling sound that owners of highspeed fans will be familiar with.
- Sound effects come through nicely, such as the howling wind on the mountain or the crunch of footsteps in the snow and ice.
- Then came a terrible howling sound, the sound of the earth being torn from itself.
- Then an unearthly, spooky, almost howling sound joined it.
- High-register electronic tones ring out as Minton provides a howling jungle of sound effects, and the noise eventually builds up and then sputters out.
- I've cut out the audio track because it was just the sound of howling wind - so it's just nice pretty pictures.
- The howling sound grows louder as we approach the gate: there is a full moon tonight.
- It whistled around the corners, making an eerie howling sound.
- For a second I thought I heard my name, then the sound of a low howling wind.
- Even in the impregnable fortress that was Robert Inglewood's twenty-fifth floor office on Greene Avenue, the sounds of the howling wind and pounding rain were deafening.
- The sound of the howling waves: the bravest winds and the seagulls above my head made me realize that I was numb in not only my actions - but also my mind.
- Over the sound of howling wind an animal cry could be heard, followed by ferocious roaring.
Synonyms baying, bay, howling, crying, cry, yowl, yowling, bark, barking, yelp, yelping - 1.1archaic Filled with or characterized by howling.
Example sentencesExamples - Smith became notorious for his orders to "kill everyone over the age of ten" and make the island "a howling wilderness."
- Outside, vast and cold, littered with ruins and prowled by predators, is ‘a howling wilderness’.
- Rilleta shuddered as a sudden howling hostility filled the world.
- Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
- We reject your attempt to portray our community as a howling wilderness of thieves as a baseless and destructive smear.
2informal attributive Extreme or great. the meal was a howling success Example sentencesExamples - And it's like driving without having to do the driving: You'd think that America's train system would be a howling success.
- Wimbledon is a howling success every year, so is the London Marathon.
- Shocking though it is to hear of locals spitting into the gutter, the descent into howling barbarism is being quite successfully checked.
- The reality genre took a giant step toward the mainstream with the howling success of this show's first season in summer 2000.
- Naturally the job goes howlingly wrong, but Frenchy's cookies, initially set up as a front, become a howling success.
Derivatives adverb as submodifier the film is as as howlingly funny as it is touching Example sentencesExamples - But to dismiss the art as unfashionably regionalist does not do justice to some fine works and a vision that testifies quietly, skilfully to this big, wide and howlingly silent land.
- I haven't heard such howlingly bad dialogue in a long while.
- This howlingly, gobsmackingly awful mess bears only too clearly the imprint of its co-producer, who makes a smirking cameo appearance.
- Naturally the job goes howlingly wrong, but Frenchy's cookies, initially set up as a front, become a howling success.
- This year's fringe was the usual mixture of the hilarious and the howlingly bad.
Definition of howling in US English: howlingadjectiveˈhaʊlɪŋˈhouliNG 1Producing a long, loud, doleful cry or wailing sound. Example sentencesExamples - Then came a terrible howling sound, the sound of the earth being torn from itself.
- Over the sound of howling wind an animal cry could be heard, followed by ferocious roaring.
- She took shelter in Aros Bay, near Tobermory, but during the night her anchor chain parted and she drifted down the sound, driven 10 miles by howling winds and strong tides.
- Then an unearthly, spooky, almost howling sound joined it.
- It's got howling vocals that sound like they were recorded inside a volcano.
- Sound effects come through nicely, such as the howling wind on the mountain or the crunch of footsteps in the snow and ice.
- She tells him about the strange howling sounds she heard outside.
- It whistled around the corners, making an eerie howling sound.
- The walls screamed with the cold and harsh sound of the howling winds.
- She heard a strange howling sound in the hills one night.
- The howling sound grows louder as we approach the gate: there is a full moon tonight.
- Silence was broken by howling winds so shrill they sounded like the shrieks of dying people.
- High-register electronic tones ring out as Minton provides a howling jungle of sound effects, and the noise eventually builds up and then sputters out.
- These fans move a truckload of air, but the catch is the tearing, howling sound that owners of highspeed fans will be familiar with.
- I've cut out the audio track because it was just the sound of howling wind - so it's just nice pretty pictures.
- The wind rushed past my ears, causing a howling sound.
- Even in the impregnable fortress that was Robert Inglewood's twenty-fifth floor office on Greene Avenue, the sounds of the howling wind and pounding rain were deafening.
- A thunderous roar rent the arrow's howling passage, the sound carrying the taint of pain.
- For a second I thought I heard my name, then the sound of a low howling wind.
- The sound of the howling waves: the bravest winds and the seagulls above my head made me realize that I was numb in not only my actions - but also my mind.
Synonyms baying, bay, howling, crying, cry, yowl, yowling, bark, barking, yelp, yelping - 1.1archaic Filled with or characterized by howling.
Example sentencesExamples - Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
- Rilleta shuddered as a sudden howling hostility filled the world.
- We reject your attempt to portray our community as a howling wilderness of thieves as a baseless and destructive smear.
- Smith became notorious for his orders to "kill everyone over the age of ten" and make the island "a howling wilderness."
- Outside, vast and cold, littered with ruins and prowled by predators, is ‘a howling wilderness’.
2informal Extreme or great. the meal was a howling success Example sentencesExamples - Naturally the job goes howlingly wrong, but Frenchy's cookies, initially set up as a front, become a howling success.
- Shocking though it is to hear of locals spitting into the gutter, the descent into howling barbarism is being quite successfully checked.
- And it's like driving without having to do the driving: You'd think that America's train system would be a howling success.
- The reality genre took a giant step toward the mainstream with the howling success of this show's first season in summer 2000.
- Wimbledon is a howling success every year, so is the London Marathon.
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