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 is literally so boring for me, a gorgeous genius, to keep having to yap on about how horribly I am treated because of my body," she wrote.

From BBC ● May 29, 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

We were destined for each other because right away he decided to sit on the windowsill and wait for me and yap at everyone who went by.

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos

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

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

Curran yaps like a terrier; words tumble from her in a torrent.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2012

Trunks slide across tiles and a little dog yaps and a conductor’s whistle blows and some kind of big machinery coughs to a start and then dies.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Most of these shacks were guarded by thin dogs, that yapped at the children from the shade under the houses.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

The hysteria of recent days, however, strikes me as akin to the neighborhood dogs yapping in chorus three weeks after the burglar has been and gone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

The yapping mutts were just a sideshow, however, to the main event, which was announced from a dais by Sarah Furness, a local dignitary: the unveiling of Britain’s first memorial statue to Queen Elizabeth II.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 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

But how could he keep the dog from yapping?

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer