as in to shriek
to cry out loudly and emotionally
yelped with surprise when everything fell off the closet shelf and onto his head
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Recent Examples of yelp
Nicole Auerbach, The Athletic, 28 July 2024
Promptly, Danielle slams her drink against the side of Jen’s neck, at which everybody yelps and jumps in to stop things from getting worse.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 24 June 2024
Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Briscoe Hay punctuates her sing-speak delivery with primal yelps, yips and yells atop Stanton’s bustling bass and NeSmith’s off-kilter but hooky surf guitar.
—Steven Wine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
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Verb
Fans yelped each time Marchand popped up during the breaststroke leg, willing him to go faster and farther with each cheer.
—Nicole Auerbach, The Athletic, 28 July 2024
Promptly, Danielle slams her drink against the side of Jen’s neck, at which everybody yelps and jumps in to stop things from getting worse.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 24 June 2024
Noun
The sound grows in the second movement, with an insistent bell in the background and a mood of increasing emergency; yelps swell to roars.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Briscoe Hay punctuates her sing-speak delivery with primal yelps, yips and yells atop Stanton’s bustling bass and NeSmith’s off-kilter but hooky surf guitar.
—Steven Wine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yelp
Verb
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The number of shrieking arguments in The Light is high even by the standards of the most extreme German angst.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Feb. 2025
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As Vance’s troubled mother, Adams shrieks a lot, which is not her specialty.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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But their therapy session is deliberately drowned out by the squeals of a nameless naked couple romping in the back.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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The associate principal clarinetist, Ben Adler, led the opening upward squeal with exultant sassiness, setting the tone for a high-spirited romp that brought grins to the faces of many onstage.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Verb
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In San Diego this incited Beatlemania-volume screaming.—
Abby Aguirre,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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There was the monotony, euphoria, and bemusement of performing the same show to 60,000 screaming fans night after night.—
Federico Fahsbender,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Loud hums, squeaks, and rattles: While many old dishwashers do emit a loud hum, sometimes this can be caused by a problem with a pump.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 Jan. 2025
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However, instead of a traditional meow, the kitten can only manage a tiny squeak.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The jungle struck up its evening symphony: the sweet chittering of insects, the distant bellowing of monkeys, the occasional screech of a kite.—
Charlie Cordero,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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But as the race against former President Trump screeches into its final week, joy has taken the back seat.—
David Lauter,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Backed against its bole, and as dark as the bark itself, was a bear.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
13 Feb. 2025
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This compound was isolated from the bark of a tree long used by Samoan traditional healers to treat hepatitis — ethnobotanist Paul Cox recorded its use there, bringing the compound to the attention of other researchers.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Yes, that would be Post Malone, who convincingly simulated Kurt Cobain’s phlegmy yowls, rocking the mic as Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic thrashed and crashed around him.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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As a shape-shifting rock poet — a prophet with a nasal yowl — Dylan and his opaque words were particularly attractive for theorists of the literary, musical and conspiratorial varieties.—
Corey Kilgannon,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The Republican conference is rife with sticking points as budget hawks squawk and some House Republicans insist on increasing the state and local tax deduction.—
Taylor Giorno,
The Hill,
30 Dec. 2024
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There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Nov. 2024
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“Yelp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelp. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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