Hailing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HAILING in dictionary:

VERB:
• HAIL, to greet
• hail falls
• (of a large number of objects) fall or be hurled forcefully
• call out to (someone) to attract attention
• signal (an approaching taxi) to stop
• praise (someone or something) enthusiastically
• have one's home or origins in (a place)
NOUN:
• pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds
• a large number of things hurled forcefully through the air
• a shout or call used to attract attention.
INTERJECTION:
• expressing greeting or acclaim
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to welcome

Words related to HAILING

hail7 hailed10 hails8

Words that contain HAILING

forhailing17 overhailing18

How to use HAILING in a sentence

• Behind them come smart sepoys hailing from Northern India, golden-turbaned, shrewd-eyed Memon traders and ruddy-complexioned close-bearded Jats from Multan.
• Confused by the speed at which she was travelling, she stumbled over the stones, agitating both her arms, and hailing us with gestures of bewilderment.
• Both species are somewhat tender, although hailing from the coast, swampy grounds of the southern States of North America.
• Hailing a caicque which was passing, he took his seat with young Coveney, who had also got leave ashore, and accepted with dignity the offer of a long pipe.
• A band of Chippewas, originally hailing from Grand Island, in Lake Superior, but now living on the extreme northern head of Green Bay, visited the office.
• The newspapers, unanimous in hailing an unknown genius, still rang with sincere praises.
• A boatman was rowing, and a little man in a pink-ribboned straw hat and whites stood in the stern hailing them.
• Drawing within hailing distance he told them of the accident.
• He departed on a trot to telegraph, hailing Philip warmly by the way.
• He was all alert now, feeling sure that someone was hailing the steamer.
• The trail came out of the hills abruptly, dropping into the rock-strewn river valley within hailing distance of the camp.
• Beside me, a scarred veteran looked back upon himself, hailing some venture from the mist of years.
• Their slow, but sure and sturdy sense may bring them at length within hailing distance of the truth.
• He dashed across the shell-swept space, picked up the wounded private, and, with the Germans fairly hailing bullets around him, carried his man back to the lines.
• Towards noon a sail was sighted, and late in the afternoon they passed within hailing distance of a fishing schooner bound down north.
• Hiring a fisherman to take him on board, to his grief, on hailing it, he discovered that it was not the French vessel charged with his Arabella.
• Then hailing a cab, I drove to a point close by where I had left Falloon, and found the situation entirely unchanged.
• Courtenay, hailing Walker, saw the two leaning over the rails in that attitude.
• At last he got within hailing distance, and saw that it was a man on horseback that he had been approaching.
• Our crew encamped at a respectful though hailing distance.
• Before dark the vessels were within hailing distance, and Captain Drake, lowering a boat, went himself on board the Swanne with the four lads.
• When, upon her coming close and hailing her to surrender, they discovered their mistake, the captain made a bold fight.
• Three minutes later an excited woman stood on bank of the Alleghany, vigorously waving her hand and hailing the youthful navigator.
• After cruising about in all directions and hailing at the top of their voices, his friends on board the St.
• It had kept well out beyond hailing distance, stood a moment or two up at the edge of the bluff, then whirled about and went the way it came.
• The boat came to a stand when within easy hailing distance, as though old Bunk was taking a view of me as I sat in the top, and was wondering what I did there.
• Once or twice he fell but he kept on and was soon within hailing distance of the light.
• Hailing the fort on the morning of the 6th and securing no answer, Lisiansky again played his cannon on the barricade.
• My engine was making up a train of material cars to be taken to our end-of-track camp, and I had to wait for it to come within hailing distance.
• I was just hailing for a boat when one of the woolly-heads began to scream.
• Early this morning the natives were heard hailing us from the woods, and as soon as I had breakfasted I advanced to them with Burnett.
• When a boy of sixteen he had, like his father, appeared in the valley, hailing, like so many others in that remote region, from nowhere in particular.
• Catesby had just time to notice this, and then he flung his arm round her waist, and hailing her as “Mother!” saluted her warmly.
• As they came up within hailing distance, we ordered them to halt, which they declined by whirling their horses and burning the earth getting away.
• A few faithful and trusted friends stood ready to desert with him when the Union army came within hailing distance.
• Day after day they paddled to within hailing distance and insulted him with yells and gestures.
• These waters are quite heavily fished from Canadian ports, and a fair number of American vessels visit them each year, most of them hailing from Boston or Gloucester.
• The shrapnel from the right bank, which they had not to meet when Hart charged across from the crest in the failing light, was now hailing on them.

Similar words containing HAIL without suffix ing

hail7 hails8 haily11 hailed10 hailer9 hailers10 hailier10 forhaile14 hailiest11 hailshot14 unhailed12 forhailed16 forhailes15 hailshots15 hailstone12 hailstorm14 overhaile15 forhailing17 hailstones13 hailstorms15 loudhailer14 overhailed17 overhailes16 loudhailers15 overhailing18

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