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
Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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
Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
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
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Verb
Yet there wasn’t some killer behind a mask or a scarred-up monster with a knife that caused James to yelp Christmas night in San Francisco.
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And the merry-go-round of yelps and vocal chops at its core gleam like Christmas morning.
—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.—
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As Vance’s troubled mother, Adams shrieks a lot, which is not her specialty.—
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But their therapy session is deliberately drowned out by the squeals of a nameless naked couple romping in the back.—
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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.—
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Preston Turano, a veterinarian and spokesperson at Felix Cat Insurance, told Newsweek that yelling, screaming, and physical punishment should never be used when training or communicating with your cat.—
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Moments after an emphatic two-handed jam in the closing seconds that sealed Sherman Oaks Notre Dame’s 68-61 upset of Harvard-Westlake on Friday night in Studio City, Tyran Stokes clenched both fists, turned toward his teammates and screamed at the top of his lungs.—
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But dolphins have complex dialects in the form of crackles, squeaks and whistles.—
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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.—
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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.—
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But as the race against former President Trump screeches into its final week, joy has taken the back seat.—
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Backed against its bole, and as dark as the bark itself, was a bear.—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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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.—
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“Yelp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelp. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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