yap

One of the gassiest debates in the NBA—and this is a gassy sport, its obsessive followers will yap about it until the ears tumble off your head—concerns what player is the “Face of the Sport.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

"It's mad people want to watch me yap," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025

At night, hungry coyotes yap and howl beyond the walls of Deborah’s ample, manicured yard.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

So, when the birds don't move around or yap in open spaces, that makes things more challenging for the humans.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

Their arched undersides and slender, long legs were full of grace and speed; they did not yap as the other dogs did, but sat perfectly still and watched her with dark, wise eyes.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

There were a few joggers and a couple of people fishing directly from the beach, but it was otherwise peaceful, punctuated only by the dull roar of lapping waves and Tobi’s occasional yaps.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2016

A small boy half-heartedly kicks a deflated plastic ball in and out of the parked cars and a dog, home alone in one of the terraced houses, repeatedly yaps his indignation.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2016

And yet it’s hard to deny the pleasure of watching somebody who yaps and yaps and yaps and then goes right out there and delivers on the yap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2015

"He is not a guy who yaps all the time, so what he says is usually pretty significant."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2015

For although these ahwoos, woofs, and yaps were indisputably of a barking, howling nature—and sounded as if they were just outside the room, in fact— they were certainly not being uttered by the Incorrigibles.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

And as I feared last week, the guys in the booth yapped way too much, including talking over a mic’d up Tiger and Phil.

From Golf Digest ● Nov. 27, 2018

In the Madison Square Park dog run, we went unnoticed until a Pomeranian caught sight of us and yapped so rambunctiously that the seal and I took refuge in a nearby Starbucks.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018

Both wagged their tails excitedly when someone came to their kennel and yapped sadly when that person walked away.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2017

Wall and his nemesis Dennis Schroder also yapped at each other as the teams departed for the locker rooms.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 16, 2017

The young woman had a small dog, a Pomeranian, that yapped nonstop during the three hours it took to empty the apartment.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Instead, I tune into my rhythmic footsteps and the medley of background noise from squawking birds, yapping passersby and whooshing traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

It was evidence the U.S. spends too much time yapping about our domestic athletes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Lewis Hamilton hit out at "yapping" critics after taking his first win for Ferrari in the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025

I had no professional cooking experience and had never been to cooking school; I didn't expect anyone to read along to my yapping when there were actual experts out there.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

Hornet and Prosper set the table together in the dining room while Mosca and Riccio chased each other from one floor to the other, always followed by Lucia's yapping dogs.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke