Examples of howl

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At the moment of its inception, however, the reformed system of criminal justice was greeted with howling disapproval.
There were howls of laughter from the rest of the class.
They would go in a valley and be howling and whining and all the wolves would answer, so they knew where they were.
One child is made the hunter; the others run off, flapping their arms and croaking like ravens or leaping and howling like wolves.
He was howled down by monarchists of right and left, and the house switched its attention to another speaker.
There are howls, scrapes, drones, rattly and bumpy percussions, arrhythmic rhythms (complex but not necessarily worked out in advance as structuring devices), croaky vocals.
They walked on all fours, preferred a diet of raw meat, they howled like wolves and lacked any form of speech.
One dog that died had been: uttering his plaintive howls on the march, a thing one never hears a dog do while working.
When this contact was all broken, such a strong hunger came over us, such a thirst that set people howling like wolves.
In any other domain, if you showed identical graphs, and then nonetheless offered qualitatively different high-level and low-level interpretations, you would be howled out of the journal.
He paints pictures of the residents - mighty barren-ground grizzlies, humming mosquitoes, howling wolves, and shy caribou - and details how the demand for oil is affecting them.
Unable e to contain himself to the regular rhythm of the service he leapt to his feet, crying like a raven and howling like a wolf.
The howl of protest was loud and predictable.
Opponents howl about socialism and intrusive government each time the reform comes onto the agenda.
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