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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as in squeal
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Examples of yelp in a Sentence
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Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
In the video, a dog can be heard yelping as the man appears in the distance riding a bicycle.
—Ruby Gonzales, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2024
There were yelps for songs that soundtracked past lives.
—Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
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Verb
Luckily, wild turkeys don’t all yelp sweetly and beautifully, either.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2024
In the video, a dog can be heard yelping as the man appears in the distance riding a bicycle.
—Ruby Gonzales, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
Noun
Fans of the best show recently on TV (two THR Top 10s, two No.1 slots for Reservation Dogs) will already have noticed three or four Reservation Dogs cast overlaps, and there are several smaller appearances that will surely elicit gleeful yelps as well.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2024
There were yelps for songs that soundtracked past lives.
—Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
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“Yelp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelp. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.
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