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
Said, ‘Pore Essie. She must a-slept right th’ew. Else why wouldn’t I of heard her holler?’
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
“Palms up, invite those bids,” he hollers to everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
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
A man among them hollers, “We’ll build a new San Francisco!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
The Permian players ran to the locker room with whoops and hollers, relieved that their ascendancy was safe for another year.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
“You look great! I wish you could see yourselves—it’s like an ocean!” she hollered at the roughly half a million bodies in front of her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Cronin went on to tell Dent that if he hollered at him about defense in practice, he would be doing his job to help him play in the NBA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
Todd whooped and hollered, in no small part because he had bet a Dodgers employee that his buddy would go deep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
“Shoo...shoo,” Ella hollered even though she usually loved it when he'd appear in her room or chase her around, making tornadoes together until Mama fussed about the mess.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Last year, “The Minecraft Movie” had children hollering in theaters but few stakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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
Although Rangers supporters have been hollering for change at the top of the club pretty much all season, the move on Monday will have come as a shock.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
They finished the set with that song, naturally, assisted by Red Arrows flypast; and Sunday night headliner Olivia Rodrigo hollering the lyrics from her boyfriend's shoulders.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
Grandpa started sawing on the check lines and hollering, “Whoa-whoa-whoa.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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