(v. i.) To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
(n.) A caterwauling.
Example Sentences:
(1) That politics is bereft of altruists, philanthropists and idealists but instead throbs and bristles with stunted show-offs, who, granted flatter abs and cuter noses, would be jiving and caterwauling on Britain's Got Talent or staring with glum vacuity down the barrel of a camera in a mock corridor in Holby City.
(2) They all caterwaul the same juvenile stuff about libraries.
(3) He was already a buffoon caterwauling on the fringe.
(4) Not least because the fans are attempting to drown out the caterwauling of a large choir on the pitch, as a potted version of Portugal's colonial nautical history is told via the medium of contemporary dance.
(5) My caterwauling offended the karaoke organiser, who turned down my microphone.
Yowl
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.
(n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was the frontman, but she swiftly became the band's most celebrated member, exuding a nonchalant, cigarette-smoking cool onstage, her calm, measured voice the perfect foil to Francis's yowling and screaming: in the 2006 Pixies documentary, loudquietloud , Deal is pursued by her own coterie of fans, who hyperventilate when they meet her and hold up signs during gigs proclaiming her to be God.
(2) Repeating the old line about the crisis starting in the US mortgage market gets another yowl of contempt.
(3) A small group of worshippers sat under an ancient bodhi tree, their chanting mingling with the yowl of peacocks and the swish of a brush sweeping leaves from the sandy ground.
(4) Whatever Trump appeared to promise, and whatever he may yowl into Twitter’s great maw, he doesn’t appear to have anyone around him who is able to translate his instincts into something that may one day resemble a legislative program.
(5) Every yelp and yowl shows a 50p rise in top tax hits the right spot.
(6) We tiptoed around, spoke in hushed tones and jumped on the cats every time they yowled.