holler
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She calls cows to breakfast with a holler, extemporizes on the Bible in full paragraphs and keeps a collection of high-vibration crystals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"But the kid inside of you wants to break out and just hoot and holler."
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
“There would be times where I’d holler at him out there like, ‘Hey!’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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
“Thank you, Pastor Tom. I’m glad you’re here to holler me back.”
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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
“I don’t want to!” he hollers, but I know it’s not me he’s mad at.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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
“They said the Dodgers are ruining baseball,” Roberts hollered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had hollered a similar message in a warmup speech to the senior officers.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
“This needlepoint is lovely,” I practically hollered as I blocked Mrs. Maroney’s way from the staircase into the living room.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Last year, “The Minecraft Movie” had children hollering in theaters but few stakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Fans dressed in approximations of her floaty ballgowns and 1920s flapper dresses, hollering lyrics like mantras.
From BBC ● May 2, 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
The script works in as many callbacks as possible: spooky mannequins under plastic sheeting, tacky parade floats with giant fiberglass clams, Hewitt hollering her memorable line: “What are you waiting for?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
We are interrupted by the sound of Saucepan Lynn hooting and hollering outside, so we run to join her.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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