howl

Object

• gale: Climbing Ben Nevis in a howling gale at night can never be taken for granted!
• mob: Wayne and Claire watched him leave and later he was driven away past a howling mob.
• wilderness: If he stood alone in a howling wilderness he was more than a man; he was a church.
• draft: A poor English breakfast at a high price in a narrow room with a howling draft.
• wolf: Like a howling wolf his shouts break out, through the forest.
• wind: Vertical, lashing rain with a dash of howling wind thrown in for good measure.

Converse of object

provoke: It was the moves by the Chávez government to take control of oil industry that provoked the most immediate howls of outrage.

Preposition: at

moon: I do not think there is anything stupid or ignorant about howling at the moon or being afraid of devils in the dark.

Adjective modifier

loud: It detonated, leaving only a loud high pitched howl and the smell of burning web behind.

Noun used with modifier

wolf: Whereupon the old wolf sat down, pointed nose at the moon, and broke out the long wolf howl.

Preposition: of

• derision: The howls of derision produced a U-turn within hours on Thursday.
• outrage: Once the students see the exam there is a howl of justifiable outrage.
• anguish: There would be no more howls of anguish for that night.
• laughter: Now I don't know when these rugged East German machines became the object of derision and howls of laughter among motorcyclists.
• wolf: Not the howl of a wolf in the wild.
• protest: I see in the work of Marc Rees a howl of protest against this.

Preposition: with

• laughter: He had the audience howling with laughter 5 minutes into the gig.
• rage: Howling with rage like an animal he leaped at a weapon propped up against the wall of the cave.

Followed by an intransitive particle

along: Seamus is an acoustic blues song which features a dog howling along.

Preposition: like

wolf: They were howling like wolves out in the passage, and muskets were crashing against the door.