How to Use howl in a Sentence

howl

verb
  • The dogs were howling at the moon.
  • Some may howl at my ideas, and that’s fine, too.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 23 May 2026
  • One big gray ran off a few yards, stopped, and howled.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Soon a lone wolf howled behind us.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Each dish and recipe howls with a common sense of place.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 14 Apr. 2026
  • My first thought was to leave her to howl into her own abyss.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The wind howling across the lochs is a sort of call to prayer.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Punch has the howling crowd once more in the palm of his hand.
    — Robert Coover, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • Once the alarm sounds, the dog howls a singsong tune in response.
    — Fox News, 15 Sep. 2019
  • One man is howling in pain with burns to his hands, arms and face.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Flinn showed up to the park on a cold day and saw strong winds howling out.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The snow is blowing, the wind is howling.
    — Abigail Wise, Outside, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Every trip down and back left his lungs howling.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Everybody howls at the truth of that.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Each joke lands better than the last, and the crowd is howling.
    — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 19 June 2018
  • The wind was howling louder now, and the sky was a strange gray.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 8 July 2024
  • Some dogs showed signs of stress, and about 10 percent howled.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This Charles is weepy and thoughtful and howls to the skies in grief.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Pets may hide, howl, pace or pant during the eclipse, Krebs said.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Winds were howling, and heat bore down as flames licked the trees on the horizon.
    — Claire Rush, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Moomin hears sirens and begins howling.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Wolves howled outside their nightly camps.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Joey rushed to the hospital to find her mom in a bed howling.
    — AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Stuck on a flight with a howling cat Dave Dzurick has been there.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
  • But even as the wind howled, all Crawford could do was wait for the storm to pass.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 30 May 2026
  • The toddler whimpered and howled, but no one came to her rescue.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • By nightfall, 100-mile-per-hour winds howled through the canyons.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • The winds are howling, the rain is pounding and sirens are blaring.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The trees around us, columns of carbon, creaked in the howling wind.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
  • Now, throw your pinky fingers up at the moon and howl in Bruno’s honor!
    — al, 26 Feb. 2023

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