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

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

On a quiet weekday evening inside a restaurant in Brooklyn, a dog under a table announced its presence with a single pronounced yap.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

And while your yap is shut, said Delia, we’re here to see you do the right thing by our poor cousin, Angela Sheehan.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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 children yapped with joy and ran outside to greet their guest.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025

Sud creates parallels between Clare in Hollywood and Dorothy in Oz, assigning Clare a Kansan back story, a yapping terrier and a guileless attitude.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

In 2009, a lawyer who lived on Central Park West filed a suit claiming that the intense “whining, barking, yapping and squealing” by her neighbor’s two Chihuahuas was causing agonizing back pain.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

“And they make a yapping noise all day long.”

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos