(1) ululates one of the series' many perturbed adolescent hunks.
(2) There was a festive atmosphere at polling stations on Monday, with some voters dancing to pro-military songs and ululating after casting their ballot.
(3) Zuma cast his vote in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal province, where a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on security upgrades at his homestead did not prevent crowds greeting him enthusiastically and ululating.
(4) Whether aged 14 or 40, a particular dashboard speed can never be reached without an instinctive ululation, "88 miiiles per houuuur"… When Secret Cinema , an organisation that arranges ambitious, mixed-media screenings of films, announced it was to show Back to the Future over 30 nights this summer, it sold more than 65,000 tickets.
(5) When Riek Machar, the former rebel leader and vice-president of South Sudan, arrived at Juba airport late last month he was greeted by ululations and the release of white doves, the symbol of peace.
(6) They chant, sing and ululate their praise – usually segregated from male supporters.
(7) Now 77, she was feted at the film premiere, having pride of place beside Elba before taking the stage to applause and ululations.
(8) By then, white protesters had left, leaving only hundreds of black people who screamed, cat-called and ululated in support.
(9) Standing through the sunroof of a car, Besigye and his wife, Winnie, waved to several thousand cheering and ululating supporters amid a heavy security presence along the road from Entebbe airport to Kampala.
(10) Between bursts, I could hear the women ululating from the gravesite, greeting the corpse, shouting again that God is great.
(11) Francis, who moves on to Uganda on Friday, began his first full day in the Kenyan capital by meeting Muslim and other religious leaders before saying an open-air Mass for tens of thousands of rain-drenched people who sang, danced and ululated as he arrived in an open popemobile.
(12) Groups of women dropped to the ground ululating and sobbing.
(13) In the huge crowd, where boys held up paper flags and women ululated, emotions were barely contained.
(14) Africans will ululate, say their brother has come and celebrate him as an icon and hero, but the package he should provide will not come easily in the economic crisis.
(15) Against a backdrop of the shattered facade and draped in a flowing headscarf of green and gold, Aisha pumped her fists at the crowd as they roared and ululated their approval.
(16) Before I inflict my various observations and prejudices on you this evening (yes, we will be Team Conchita all the way, I’m terribly sorry, in this time-delayed global celebration of ululation, impartiality really is for wimps) I thought I’d come to terms with why I’m a Eurovision tragic.
(17) Greeted by ululations, she told the hundreds of guests: "I'm just as excited as all of you are.
Wail
Definition:
(v. t.) To choose; to select.
(v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.
(v. i.) To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
(n.) Loud weeping; violent lamentation; wailing.
Example Sentences:
(1) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
(2) Every now and then some rich Oga or Madam comes along in their bulletproof cars and wailing sirens, and distorts the delicate equilibrium of this body of traffic.
(3) In groups 1 and 2, clusters of cylindrical tubules, typical of the male gland, decreased in number and disappeared almost completely 2 wailed in these two groups throughout the remaining period of experiment.
(4) "Barcelona's habit of playing midfielders in defence will do them more harm than good," he wails.
(5) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
(6) There were moments when music seemed to struggle to be heard over the tocking of iPod clickwheels and the wailing of record company executives.
(7) The army cleared itself of responsibility for the killing of a Palestinian family on a Gaza beach three weeks ago during an artillery barrage after many Israelis were shaken by television pictures of a traumatised child wailing over the body of her father.
(8) While Arsenal fans have spent the last nine years gnashing and wailing, Hull supporters have cheered the incredible resurrection of their club, as David Conn explains here .
(9) Some family members, after years of begging for mercy and receiving none, broke down and wailed.
(10) The big story Once upon a time the Oscar ceremony was a comforting drone punctuated only by the odd song-and-dance routine and the banshee wailing of overwhelmed best actress award winners.
(11) Elsewhere on the carpet Quentin Tarantino is having a bop with Uma Thurman (again), Xavier Dolan is wearing an outrageous tux (again) and the boring normal people at the barriers are wailing for stars' attention (again).
(12) Later that night, Lola wailed in the street as the police prised her baby from her arms and led her into custody.
(13) Family members who had gathered at a hotel in Beijing wailed as they heard the news.
(14) Naderi offered his prayers to Dhu’s family at the end of his evidence, saying: “I wish I was able to pick up any abnormal signs that may have made a difference.” Carol Roe ran crying from the courtroom, her wail flowing back through the door to where Naderi was seated in the witness box.
(15) Sorrowful wails and sobs resounded as thousands of Rwandans packed the country's main sports stadium to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of a devastating 100-day genocide.
(16) Sandy breaking out of the compound BB3 Sandy's insistence on his quirkiness got rather wearing, so it was just as well he made a bid for escape, with his new best friend Alex wailing, "Be careful, Sandy, be careful!"
(17) Starbucks admitted that while it can (quite incredibly) claim that its 700 UK stores are not profitable, through wails of what seemed like crocodile tears, its 30 coffee traders in Switzerland make an enormous 20% profit margin despite never seeing a coffee bean; a fact that the committee could not have helped noting might be related to the 12% tax it pays in that state.
(18) Their players are distraught and making a mess of everything, while the TV producer here is having an absolute ball picking out wailing Brazilians in the crowd.
(19) Another shows a scene of villagers wailing with grief: “Villagers grieve as their friend is put into the ambulance,” the voiceover says.
(20) Among those who finally decided that Kobani was on the brink was Mukdad Bozan, travelling with his wife, a wailing baby and three bedraggled older children.