yawp

Example Sentences

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Here in stone and glass and wood was an eruption of human potential – a victorious yawp in the face of benightedness.

From Fox News • Apr. 16, 2019

I watched him nimbly pop up onto his surfboard and disappear with a barbaric yawp over the crest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2016

N.W.A's aesthetic of total rebellion, its insistence on offending everyone and flipping its middle finger at everything, took the barbaric yawp of punk rock and raised it by orders of magnitude.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2015

People, particularly people belonging to Generations X or Y, are responding to Ojai as a whole with a collective barbaric yawp.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2015

Tiny runs up to us and puts a paw on each of our shoulders and lets forth a yawp of joy.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan