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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caterwaul.

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Examples

  • The entrance hall was alive with the recorded gibbers, chitters, squawks, and caterwauls of the animal kingdom.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • The entrance hall was alive with the recorded gibbers, chitters, squawks, and caterwauls of the animal kingdom.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • And as the caterwauls of the dying floated from flood waters in Nowshera, Mr. Zardari sipped tea with British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Chequers country retreat in Buckinghamshire.

    Michael Hughes: Calling Pakistan's Floods 'Zardari's Katrina' is an Insult to George W. Bush 2010

  • And as the caterwauls of the dying floated from flood waters in Nowshera, Mr. Zardari sipped tea with British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Chequers country retreat in Buckinghamshire.

    Michael Hughes: Calling Pakistan's Floods 'Zardari's Katrina' is an Insult to George W. Bush 2010

  • One of my favorite scenes in the film is the moment in the last shots when Steve Buscemi - now turned wedding singer - caterwauls “True” by Spandau Ballet.

    J.D.’s Top 10 Favorite Romantic Comedies » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • On the other hand, amidst all the caterwauls and chuckles, the news media lost track of the confines of the original study.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • S.ccessive U.S. Presidents, when push came to shove, have defended the right to make this choice freely and ignored Russian caterwauls.

    Obama and Putin's Russia 2009

  • A soulful, progressive, widely dynamic and explosive singer prone to sudden Sufi singer Nusrat Ali Khan-like caterwauls, Markel has been compared by the press to some of the greatest singers of our time including Bono, Jeff

    Gregory Markel Performs Live at The Cat Club November 3rd 8 p.m. 2006

  • I am suprised I can even understand your words, the way your wet lips wrench syllables into gargoyles twisting ideas into caterwauls explosive in close proximity and yet I listen helplessly haplessly struck by the odd cadence the almost-familar slurring

    Archive 2004-02-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • I am suprised I can even understand your words, the way your wet lips wrench syllables into gargoyles twisting ideas into caterwauls explosive in close proximity and yet I listen helplessly haplessly struck by the odd cadence the almost-familar slurring

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2004

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