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Examples of bawl in a Sentence
Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
The sound of cattle bawling for days after their calves were driven to the sale barn suddenly took on a harrowing timbre.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2023
In the clubhouse after the final regular season game of 2022, Pivetta couldn’t stop bawling.
—Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
Top speed is up, too, from the S4S's 162 mph to a more provocative 173 mph, which comes with the V-8 bawling and fuming at 6100 rpm.
—John Phillips, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2023
Musk replied to Krugman with a photo of a bawling baby.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2023
Now, speed restrictions have trains crawling and riders bawling.
—Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
Bruins fans who delight in the image of Adam Morrison bawling after Gonzaga’s epic collapse in 2006 cringe at their own heroes’ despair.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
Want to bawl your eyes out?
—Brooke Lamantia, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Mar. 2023
Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
That night, Faris saw a woman near her bawl and wide-eyed grown-ups run.
—Washington Post, 21 July 2021
Distillers bury their faces in their hands and bawl after learning MLB’s winter meetings will go virtual.
—Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
Wilkins communicates differently — at a higher rate of notes per minute — peppering you with action before letting his tone disintegrate into a dry bawl.
—New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
The new study is just one in a series of recent reports that reveal the centrality of crying to infant survival, and how a baby’s bawl punches through a cluttered acoustic landscape to demand immediate adult attention.
—Natalie Angier, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
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Word History
Verb
Middle English, to bark, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Icelandic baula to low
Noun
noun derivative of bawl entry 1
Verb
1533, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
Noun
1566, in the meaning defined above
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“Bawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bawl. Accessed 1 Dec. 2023.
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