Howling in example sentence

He certainly considered himself brave, but he felt a disagreeable emotion at his chest amid this thunder of trains, the hollow blows of the signals, the stifled howling of the trumpet, the continual flight of those cables, unrolled and rolled at full speed by the drums of the engine.

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So we're in this big wire kennel with all these people, and the police officers are there and we're there, and we start howling like dogs.

With the keenest of ears, I would hear family chatter, laughter, the wind howling and even crickets chirping.

Perhaps the most vivid example was the practice of cat burning, in which a cat was hoisted on a stage and lowered in a sling into a fire, and the spectators shrieked in laughter as the cat, howling in pain, was burned to death.

And so my weekends were these long, howling silences.

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