holler
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"But the kid inside of you wants to break out and just hoot and holler."
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
During Idioteque, guitarist Ed O'Brien catches him mid-transit, and they holler the lyrics directly to one another.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
The glorious holler of the V12—equivalent to six Italian superbikes—would make a statue of Enzo Ferrari cry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
High school, college, med school, it’s all the same: You dress up, get there early, sweat in the sunshine, and holler like hell when the grad’s name gets called.
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
Someone was screaming, a long, steady holler, so loud it woke me up.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Cosby defined it to me as “books that took noir existentialism out the cities and the back and brought it down into the hills and the hollers, the low country.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
One of the lesser-known tragedies is the story of Gary Stewart, a bar-prowling, hard-living singer from the hollers of eastern Kentucky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
But us football fans must recognize that not everyone hoots and hollers for the conversion on a long third down or a legendary pick six.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025
There were heartening hollers, dramatic dashes when chances were created and applause for the application of her players throughout.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
“Stuart’s still driving over from Shreveport,” the Senator hollers.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
“I’m going to watch,” he hollered that day, “just like all of you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
Eight men sliding 16 stones down an ice sheet to the soundtrack of clunking granite, furious sweeping and hollered commands of "hard" and "curl".
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
He hollered, “Where’s Creighton?” and, moments later, shook hands with lead prosecutor Creighton Waters as he entered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had hollered a similar message in a warmup speech to the senior officers.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
“You no-good children, come back here right this instant!” she hollered.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Last year, “The Minecraft Movie” had children hollering in theaters but few stakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
In my head, it felt like Jackson and the other characters were there the whole time hollering, “Hurry up and get us out there!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
TMZ posted video of Ja Rule hollering from the aisle as another man tries to calm him down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Because December 2006's goal of the month contest was powerful stuff; a 100%-proof cocktail of hollering commentators and screaming shots as semtex insteps hit the ball with gleeful abandon.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024
Everyone starts hooting and hollering as “Run the World” comes on—apparently everyone, even Spike, even Spike’s coolest friends, loves Beyoncé.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
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