squalling

IPA: skwˈɔɫɪŋ

noun

  • The act of one who squalls; a crying or wailing.
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Examples of "squalling" in Sentences

  • Then she sprang away, up the trail, squalling with every leap she made.
  • Lots of the younger children set up a-squalling, and it kept the women busy hushing them.
  • Grizz turned him loose and he ran back up the creekbed squalling all the way out of sight.
  • The infant heir of the house of — has shown his good taste by passing the day in squalling.
  • There was a crashing of curtains and curtain-poles and a squawking and squalling of attendants as my hands closed on Chong Mong-ju's throat.
  • She was a woman and I was a man and a lover, and all the heredity of love was mine up from the black and squalling jungle ere love was love and man was man.
  • She squinted, picking out pinpricks of light, and fancied she heard the chittering howl of foxes - the kind of squalling that sounded like a little girl in distress.
  • The euphoria I felt at the hospital was dashed on our first night together at home: we played pass the parcel all night with a squalling, unfamiliar infant, tripping over boxes and packing cases, shell-shocked at what we had done.
  • One mom who can't quite reconcile Connie's brown skin and black hair with my green-eyed blonde complexion asks indiscreetly, “Peruvian adoption?” to which I simply nod instead of asking, “Fertility treatments?” about the squalling brood in her triple-wide stroller.

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