keening

• It started its weird keening, the same blood-curdling cry it had voiced earlier. —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 04-05 - October-November 2006
• The wind began to rise outside with a low, keening, moaning sound which meant even worse weather to come. —  Death of a Macho Man
• As I caught the beat of pinions and the near-ultrasonic keening--part sonar, part language -there came, hazy and unbidden, the image of Sarah on a white beach by the blue ocean, her hair falling in salt tangles as she stooped along the shore to collect fishbones and shells. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
• The mad brain encased in its indestructible titanium shell, had all circuits open, keening, oblivious to everything. —  The Ship Who Sang
• Yalnis's tears flowed again and she sobbed, keening, grieving, wishing to take back the whole last time of waking. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)

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