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HOWLING

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howling I. adjectiv

1. urlător.

2. plin de urlete, sinistru, lugubru.

3. (sl.) colosal; ţipător, strigător, enorm;

howling mistake greşeală enormă;

howling success succes nebun;

a howling swell un fante, un dandi ultraelegant, un malagambist;

howling shame a) ruşine mare; b) nedreptate strigătoare la cer.

howling II. s.

1. urlet(e) (ale furtunii etc.).

2. (radio) reacţie în antenă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

White Fang was howling as dogs howl when their masters lie dead.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Far off I hear the howling of wolves; the snow brings them down from the mountains, and there are dangers to all of us, and from all sides.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I hear dogs howling.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Suddenly he stopped. Hark! Close at hand came the howling of many wolves.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

This howling now bothered him.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I did not know what to do, the less as the howling of the wolves grew closer; but while I wondered the driver suddenly appeared again, and without a word took his seat, and we resumed our journey.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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