BAWL in a Sentence

Learn BAWL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

30 example sentences for BAWL, such as:

1. That baby has been bawling for hours.
2. She bawled at him in front of everyone.
3. I heard the sergeant bawl out a command to his men.
4. If she thought of these things, she'd begin to scream and bawl like Prissy.
5. Prissy began to bawl suddenly, loudly, the sound adding to Scarlett's own uneasiness.

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 Meanings and Examples of BAWL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bawl
 v.  cry out with a loud, full sound; cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; shout
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  And Gerald would scold and bawl but, for all his remarks of yesterday about not wanting her to marry Ashley, he would be pleased beyond words at an alliance between his family and the Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Prissy began to bawl suddenly, loudly, the sound adding to Scarlett's own uneasiness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  If she thought of these things, she'd begin to scream and bawl like Prissy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  Then the bushes beside them crashed apart under heavy hooves and a low moaning bawl assaulted their ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  He leaned close to bawl, "Letting the horses have their heads."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  For one, I cannot bawl very heartily and work very recklessly at one and the same time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
7  It was impressive, to the nurses, the way an old boy of his age could still bawl and make a brute like that obey him.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
8  Listen," went on Gavroche, "you must never bawl again over anything.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
9  But now Gerald had bawled the words "Fort Sumter," and every man present forgot his host's admonition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  "Sure, because she didn't have a second day," Gerald explained and bawled with laughter before recalling that perhaps such remarks were not fit for female ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  Prissy rolled her eyes wildly, peeping first at the set face of her mistress and then at the cow which bawled plaintively.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  She tiptoed down the stairs and out of the house while Cookie bawled on unconcernedly in the kitchen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  "A-maying, a-maying," they bawled.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
14  'He looks as if he was a-going, miss,' bawled Brittles, in the same manner as before.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  She missed the sounds of quarreling voices that were always heard at Tara when Ellen's back was turned, Mammy quarreling with Pork, Rosa and Teena bickering, her own acrimonious arguments with Suellen, Gerald's bawling threats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence:
1  I heard the sergeant bawl out a command to his men.
2  "Well, I'd hardly finished the first verse," said the Hatter, "when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, he's murdering the time! Off with his head!"
3  She bawled at him in front of everyone.
4  That baby has been bawling for hours.
5  When I came back to the hotel Laura and Peter were shouting and bawling at each other.