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  • noun Plural form of yowling.

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Examples

  • Damn, I've had sex with a girl reading away at T.S.-fucking Eliot while my refrains were yowlings of...oh well, but oh how I loved that girl.

    Poetic Justice The Daily Growler 2006

  • A Daily Growler embedded reporter name is being held for security reasons in Iraq sent the following telegram this morning to The Daily Growler outhouse office on the banks of the Suwanee River: The streets of Baghdad are berift with cacophonous yodellings and yowlings and ululations only 'these people' understand, though we all know what all of this means: Victory alas in Iraq.

    VICTORY IN IRAQ The Daily Growler 2006

  • Carrie would have expected the yowlings and meowings of animals upset by a change in routine, if nothing else.

    the deer leap Grimes, Martha 1985

  • It always moved up or down to a succession of screaks, unoilable, blood-curdling, that were intensified by Mrs. Bradshaw's weight, so that she ascended to the blue tarletan heaven accompanied by such chugs and long-drawn yowlings as suggested a trip to the infernal regions.

    Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser

  • This was an imitation of the noises made by the carnivora at the Zoölogical Gardens at feeding-time; the idea was taken up by prisoner after prisoner until the whole place was alive with barkings, yappings, roarings, pelican chatterings, and feline yowlings, interspersed with shrieks of hysterical laughter.

    Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

  • The yowlings which usually greet the bugler on any unwelcome occasion were absent this morning, for most of us were ready to rise, or already risen.

    At Plattsburg Allen French 1908

  • This was an imitation of the noises made by the carnivora at the Zoological Gardens at feeding-time; the idea was taken up by prisoner after prisoner until the whole place was alive with barkings, yappings, roarings, pelican chatterings, and feline yowlings, interspersed with shrieks of hysterical laughter.

    Ann Veronica, a modern love story 1906

  • The air was split with yowlings and spittings and hissing.

    The Thrall of Leif the Lucky 1893

  • Debbie started to scream at this, at the endless boundless future; from deep in her guts roared great primal yowlings of happiness and potential and everything, everything, her face tingling through the mask of foundation and mascara and lipstick and eyeliner and blush.

    The Walrus Magazine 2010

  • Ungodly yowlings accompanied the animal’s death throes.

    The Vulcan Academy Murders Jean Lorrah 2000

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