How to Use howling in a Sentence

howling

adjective
  • After the rain stopped, there was a strange howling sound from the wind that was loud, constant, and all night long.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Either that, or the Daily Mail editors had a howling good time with publication dates.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The City of Aurora, Illinois, is touting a howling success.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • With relentless howling wind making up much of the soundtrack, The Turin Horse was a chilling, enigmatic stunner that played like a metaphor for the apocalypse.
    Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
  • In the elk- and deer-rich areas of northern Yellowstone National Park, ravens are often among the first scavengers to arrive on the scene, swooping down to feast on scraps left behind by the howling canines.
    Nidhi Sharma, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Aaron Chown—Press Association via AP Images People remove a new artwork by Banksy, depicting a howling wolf painted on a satellite dish that was placed on a shop roof in Peckham, south London.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 10 Sep. 2025

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