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  • verb Present participle of miaow.

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Examples

  • Only on Friday, would you believe, because I hadn't really been following the story, came the reply, punctuated by a faint miaowing in the background.

    Rewind Radio: 5 Live Drive; PM; Ronnie Wood; Saturday Live – review 2011

  • Our own two cats know where the toy is kept and run over to the drawer, miaowing, whenever we enter the room - that's how addictive it is.

    Buy of the day 2010

  • I cried, and fell to again with a will, but every time I became properly engrossed, she would stop to chide the cat, which kept loafing around miaowing, until I was near crazy, with that naked alabaster beauty squirming athwart my hawse, as the sailors say, and nothing to be done satisfactorily until she had left off talking and come back to work.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Then it began miaowing in different parts of the room.

    How to create a perfect predator AYDIN 2009

  • I fetched my cat back from the cattery yesterday afternoon she stayed there whilst I was on holiday - my house feels much more homely with her around, but IU didn't miss waking up in the middle of the night because the cat is sitting "affectionately" on my chest staring into my face and miaowing.

    Cats make Beth feel better Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Please note the sarcastic tone of comments like, So, distressed miaowing is cute now?

    Video: Cat Yodeling - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Mummy still looks a little confused and Kitten 1 is miaowing and carrying on happily.

    January 30th, 2005 mynxii 2005

  • Then it began miaowing in different parts of the room.

    The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

  • β€œIt was alive four days after, I know, and down a grating in Great Tichfield Street; because I saw a crowd round the place, trying to see whence the miaowing came.”

    The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

  • Lately Listened To: Grimoire miaowing for attention

    Hell and rainbows Dayle A. Dermatis 2006

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