Plays intensely, in jazz slang

Usage examples of wails.

Over and over, my returned lotus castigates herself, beats her heavy breasts, wails at the top of her voice.

Its piteous wails were not quite audible, but they were acutely sensible.

These were different, he realized, these were not the same as the querulous little psychic wails from the weird grub ten feet from him.

Where the borough met the river, subterranean punishment factories emitted wails of pain, sometimes, and hastily smothered screams.

The patter died away silently, and instead Isaac walked across to Andrej and overpowered the decrepit man with ease, stifling his nasal wails with strips of cloth.

I cannot stop this noise, I do not want to, I shriek and shriek and as my voice grows, memories of war-cries come to me, memories of my band racing in to hunt or fight, memories of funereal ululation and exorcism wails but this is none of these, this is my pain, unstructured, uncultured, unregulated and illicit and my own, my agony, my loneliness, my misery, my guilt.

These were different, he real­ized, these were not the same as the querulous little psychic wails from the weird grub ten feet from him.

Where the borough met the river, subterranean punishment facto­ries emitted wails of pain, sometimes, and hastily smothered screams.

The patter died away silently, and instead Isaac walked across to Andrej and over­powered the decrepit man with ease, stifling his nasal wails with strips of cloth.

The women from the villages had come out to search for their men among the bodies littering the field, and their wails and shrieks mocked the cheers.

The sluggish current pulled the ship slowly away, and wails and despairing moans followed them as they drifted.

It was impossible to see the city, and the wails and cries from the hidden streets seemed somehow muffled.

Furthermore, if the horses could not hear the wails, they could not be real wails either.

Rendered deaf by the poisonous mud of the rain‑forest, a disability which had begun to upset them a good deal now that the taunting voices of the jungle were no longer hanging in the air, they wailed their several wails, all talking at once, none hearing the other.

His pulse was measured in elongated wails each time his body jerked and emitted thick, black emulsion from his member that wriggled in a slimy wash of tiny black tadpoles over his stomach, his lap, and his thighs.