yip
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She sings “Ooh, ooh,” with a cowgirl yip, fully confident of an impending reunion.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Her mouth curled into a wide smile and she let out a little yip of delight: “They said his name!”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
Contrary to his reputation as a conservative fire-breather, he seemed more yip than bite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Then there’s a slight delay and the hint of a yip from Zverev with a double fault as he goes for it on his second serve.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2022
“Let’s move,” I yip, and race toward the scent.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
In the distance, a pack of coyotes yipped and howled.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2022
But, boy, that voice could work a singlet, too: She learned to flex her soprano so that it bent, barked, yipped and squealed.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Ausband was gone, but Roady yipped from inside the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
When his turn came, he charged the ball down the slope, several feet too far, chased after it, and, almost before it had come to rest, yipped it a foot wide of the hole.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 31, 2020
She was so sharp and disrespectful when she yipped at him in tailless talk.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Responding to a call, Susan Clark of Topanga Animal Rescue witnessed BB14 facing down yipping coyotes, with her cubs up a tree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
One leads to her office and staff work spaces and the other to her yipping Chihuahua and the living areas.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
To support the medical community, Shelby-ites young and old unwind with unfettered howling and yipping - they’re Coyotes, after all - at 8 p.m. nightly.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2020
Maria Vallardes came to the door in slippered feet, a pomeranian yipping behind her.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2020
Those first hours are associated in my memory with one sound, not one you’d guess, not the yipping of the hyena or the hissing of the sea: it was the buzzing of flies.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
