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Recent Examples of mewl Their swollen limbs, skeletal frames, and mewling cries of desperation are what keep me awake at night. Jennifer Furin, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025 Stray cats followed us around, mewling from hunger. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 Henry has unexpectedly become a dad, and must deal with a screaming, mewling baby that resembles a small skinned animal. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025 Tannahill, now jerked upside down, would mewl and scream and clamber down a wall. Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023 That’s the music I was raised on: Morrissey’s mewling over beautiful, peppy Johnny Marr guitar parts. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2018 Somewhere in the dark of the room, a kitten mewled. James Queally and Anh Do, latimes.com, 9 Oct. 2017 The cats, which spent the first day mewling, have mellowed out. Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mewl
Verb
  • Ezra gets the ball in his hands and, after looking back at his mom while JJ whimpers excitedly, tosses the orange ball back to the dog.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The mumbling girl is ill and must be taken to hospital, where her mother whimpers prayers over her.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.
    Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2025
  • Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin cried on the air over their pets.
    Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 16 May 2025

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“Mewl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mewl. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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