yip
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Her mouth curled into a wide smile and she let out a little yip of delight: “They said his name!”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
Contrary to his reputation as a conservative fire-breather, he seemed more yip than bite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Then there’s a slight delay and the hint of a yip from Zverev with a double fault as he goes for it on his second serve.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2022
If one were to measure the level of public outcry surrounding this situation, it's more of a yip than a roar, bound to die down once the show debuts.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2021
At the sound of her name, Lucy let out another yip.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
In the distance, a pack of coyotes yipped and howled.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2022
Ausband was gone, but Roady yipped from inside the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
When his turn came, he charged the ball down the slope, several feet too far, chased after it, and, almost before it had come to rest, yipped it a foot wide of the hole.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 31, 2020
A fluffy Pomeranian he named Gucci and is raising with his girlfriend and manager, Lauren Ledford, yipped at his feet.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2016
Mayor yipped and jumped as more people bent to the ground.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Responding to a call, Susan Clark of Topanga Animal Rescue witnessed BB14 facing down yipping coyotes, with her cubs up a tree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Not to mention three yipping puppies, two mewing kittens and a fake partridge on the fake twig of a fake pear tree.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021
To support the medical community, Shelby-ites young and old unwind with unfettered howling and yipping - they’re Coyotes, after all - at 8 p.m. nightly.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2020
Maria Vallardes came to the door in slippered feet, a pomeranian yipping behind her.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2020
A beagle scrambling to his feet to start his yipping yowl, answered a few seconds later by fire truck sirens and an angry woman hissing, “Sammy! Bad dog! Hush now!”
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
