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
Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2025
The powerful primate makes contact with the glass wall with a heavy thud, which leaves the group near the wall gasping and yelping in fear.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
As the spice levels rise, sweat starts to bead, faces flush, and answers descend into incoherent yelps.
—Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
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Verb
But the cubs, like any persistent little ones, would chase her down, nipping at her and yelping for more attention.
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Simba, a goldendoodle, and Rafiki, a labradoodle — yelp and bark.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for yelp
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Normally, scent voices are mere whispers compared to the screams and angry shouts of humans, but in that section, certain sensitive plant species shrieked incessantly because of their proximity to plants that hindered their growth.—
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This seems to me as offensive to rationality as a saint shrieking into the air.—
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For the record, actor Henry Travers pronounces the word library in a desperate squeal.—
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The duo jumped and screamed in celebration, with their dogs joining the fun with a few barks and squeals.—
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Even Liz and Prue, half sisters whose relationship had been punctuated by epic screaming fights, found common ground.—
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Emotions spilled over in the public gallery when the sister of one of the teachers killed screamed out.—
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The parrot responded by barking, a real yip like a small dog.—
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With Christian Braun out these next few weeks, the Nuggets (10-3) could use every squeak.—
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With the squeak of steel on steel, Mr. Botticello’s train pulls into the station, right on time.—
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This not-quite-title song, which is nearly eight minutes long, is a sort of mini-suite, opening with a dog barking, giving way to an acoustic-guitar melody accompanying polyphonic vocals, then becoming electric and crashingly alive, until the relentless screech of a guitar drags you to the end.—
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As the band blares, Georgia fans bark for the Dawgs and Alabama faithful screech Roll Tide.—
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The year's first full moon is best known as the wolf moon since the howls of wolves were more likely to be heard during winter, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.—
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There is a howl whipping through the bare trees.—
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Throw away the old potting medium and repot the plant in a fresh orchid potting medium that contains bark, sphagnum moss, charcoal, and perlite.—
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Organic mulches like compost, straw, and shredded bark break down slowly for better soil structure over time.—
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“Yelp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelp. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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