yaps

Example Sentences

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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

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