Howling

/ˈhaʊlɪŋ/ · noun

Meaning

The act of producing howls..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of producing howls.
2. present participle and gerund of howl
3. That howls.
4. That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.
5. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier

Example Sentences

The howling of wolves is haunting at night.

"They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."

howling wind

A few minutes later a howling mob was at the door.

We have already seen in Chapter I how man stepped upwards from the level of a howling brute to the higher level of an articulate being, and thence to the still higher level of a singing creature.

It consisted of marching on to College green or St Stephen's green on a day when there was a howling gale and the wind was blowing about us –I am sure hon. Members today are familiar with this –to utter a few, well-chosen platitudes.

Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one's stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden!

Some agency must control the allocation of frequencies or all our airways would be a howling chaos: but there is no rational justification for the kind of regulation that the Federal Communications Commission proposes for our industry.

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