noun
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The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
example
The howl of the wind
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A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
verb
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To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
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To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
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To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
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To utter with outcry.
example
to howl derision
Examples of howl in a Sentence
He cupped his hand to her ear so she could hear over the howl of the rising wind.
He'll howl in protest if you don't pick him up immediately!
The winds do howl and clouds scud by Me thinks tis too late, as the sea gulls still cry.
The winds bluster and howl against the window, shaking the house violently.
With an incoherent howl he wriggled round and punched the policeman smartly in the stomach.
Behind him, where Karataev had been sitting, the dog began to howl.
When stuck in a tree, a cat will often howl into the night and keep neighbors and owners awake.
If possible, request a site that is away from other campers, just in case your dog wants to howl at the moon.
Catch the training icon quickly and you can teach your dog to howl!
City Lights is best known for publishing "Howl" by Ginsberg and "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.
She sat, lifted her muzzle to the sky, and let out a mournful, grief stricken howl that stabbed both Sarah and Connor through to their core.
She hadn't noticed Jackson yet, so stretched her front paws out and let out a proud howl.
Somewhere out on the range a lone wolf called, its eerie howl reminding the intruding humans that they had not yet won.
May I also recommend Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's latest film Howl's Moving Castle.
Reviews 'The tone is part elegy, part satire, part howl and very, very funny.
It detonated, leaving only a loud high pitched howl and the smell of burning web behind.
Whereupon the old wolf sat down, pointed nose at the moon, and broke out the long wolf howl.
Love sarah P.s. My Pc name is even Howl MC which makes the people at aol laugh when I have to call up !
How can you celebrate Halloween without the eerie sound of a wolf 's howl (or possibly, a werewolf 's howl)?
Or maybe you'll end up sitting out on the porch listening to the howl of coyotes in the distance while you sip your instant hot cocoa.
In WWE Day of Reckoning 2, gamers pick up the controllers yet one more time, and have a howl of a time between headlocks and suplexes.
Some babies go peacefully to bed, but then sometime later in the night, they awaken and howl aggressively until someone comes to their rescue.
Soon thereafter, they heard the howl of a wolf, and a large black creature leaped from one of the windows of the house into the snow.
Against this work and the Ethics of Spinoza the orthodox Cartesians (who were in the majority), no less than sceptical hangers-on like Bayle, raised an all but universal howl of reprobation, scarcely broken for about a century.
However, the descent poses nothing short of poetic trepidation that will lead a cat to freeze in its lofty position and howl into the night.
When the animal is excited, the howl changes into what has been compared to demoniac laughter, whence the name of "laughing-hyena."