Keening

The patient lay in the hospital bed, his keening thoughts consumed by the desire to be healthy again.

The wanderer stood on the mountaintop, feeling the keening wind against his face, yearning for freedom and adventure.

The character in the novel was portrayed as a keening figure, forever yearning for redemption and forgiveness.

The women of the village gathered to keening when they heard the news of the shipwreck.

The keening smell of rotten eggs indicated a gas leak in the basement.

The eerie keening of the siren warned the residents of the impending storm.