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- noun Plural form of
howling .
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Examples
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When night came, I quitted my retreat, and wandered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings.
Chapter 16 2010
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Into the midst of them, when with more howlings and yelpings they were loaded into the baggage car, was Michael's cage piled.
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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(Actually, I just want to listen to the howlings when something like that gets proposed.)
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Large crowds of mourners gathered on the palace grounds and “made the place a pandemonium every night with their howlings and wailings, beating of tom-toms and dancing of the at other times forbidden hula-hula by half-clad maidens to the music of songs of questionable decency chanted in honor of the deceased.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Large crowds of mourners gathered on the palace grounds and “made the place a pandemonium every night with their howlings and wailings, beating of tom-toms and dancing of the at other times forbidden hula-hula by half-clad maidens to the music of songs of questionable decency chanted in honor of the deceased.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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But then the howlings of her Siberian husky awoke her at 3 a.m. Sunday.
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His latest Islamoloon howlings involve the demon drink and calls for people who drink to be flogged!
Drink and you should be flogged - Islamic tolerance and love from Anjem Choudray. FIDO The Dog 2009
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This is like nothing you've ever heard, it being an amalgam of Cab Calloway mini-moochings, Paul Simon Graceland rhythms, E Street Band stage camaraderie, dirty boogies, Aryan soca, Memphis country, Van Morrison and early rock 'n' roll howlings, and a raw energy that doesn't give a flip about promoting singles over having a damned good time.
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Actually, I just want to listen to the howlings when something like that gets proposed.
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In an earlier life he was a big alternative-therapies/holistic-health/foods-will-heal-you kind of guy -- see the many books listed under "Michael Weiner" on his wikipedia page -- and so his howlings about autism are in some sense consistent with his howlings about depression, schizophrenia, etc. etc. etc.
Savage autism. Ann Althouse 2008
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