1. hailing - Noun
2. hailing - Verb
hailing
present participle of hail
hailing (plural hailings)
The act by which somebody is hailed.
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Julian Barnes
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot. Simon Schama
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. Derek Jacobi
Toscanini was hailing a great artist, but that voice was more than a magnificent personal talent. It was the religious voice of a whole religious people - probably the most God-obsessed (and man-despised) people since the ancient Hebrews. Whittaker Chambers
I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace. Ben Silbermann
A 60-year old woman hailing succumbed to the COVID-19 infection here taking the toll in Puducherry to nine, while 19 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours. Source: Internet