wail

Object

• siren: The only sounds that remained there were cries of pain, the wail ambulance sirens... Where are the children?
• harmonica: Their sound includes off-kilter lyrics, blues guitar jangle and wailing harmonica, low down funky drums and fat jazz double bass.
• cry: Staff working late in the Abbey have heard an eerie wailing cry coming down the corridors.
• guitar: The lyre and harp soundtrack was replaced with wailing heavy metal guitars.
• solo: Long self indulgent wailing guitar solos became a thing of the past.
• vocal: This is a circumspect simple track with slow plodding bass sharing main duties with a looped wailing female vocal.

Converse of object

• hear: One night I saw a crowd on a street and heard piteous wails.

Adjective modifier

• mournful: Their mournful wails float through the branches in the vein Edgar Allen Poe.

Modifying Another Word

• loudly: One fine day all sirens in a secret military installation south of Moscow begin to wail loudly.
• away: Level is the closest Jack comes on the record to wailing away on his guitar and flat-out rocking.
• no: Now, please, ladies - no wailing, no flailing, no suicides, no tears.
• much: And far, far too much wailing and hysterical laughter.
• again: Problem happily resolved, the women began to wail again.
• long: Now, she hears the shout of Bannockburn; and now, the long wail of Flodden.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• out: At last, a band that remember how to rock - and how to wail out their vocals.

Used with why or when

• that: There is a high pitched wail that makes it almost compulsory to put your fingers in your ears.
• when: Honestly, readers - you should have seen him wail when I beat him at pool twice in a row.

Preposition: of

• siren: Eerily, the soul tearing sound mutated into the wailing of the warning siren on the building site.
• despair: From high in the air, with a wail of despair, She fell in a downward direction.

Preposition: like

• banshee: A ghost is also said to haunt the vicinity wailing like a banshee.