yip
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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
Some mornings, the shrill yip of elusive coyotes can still be heard on the horizon, impossible to place.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2021
He had folded his tall, super-lanky self into a corner table, where he was digging into a grilled salmon salad he had greeted with an appreciative Kanye-inspired yip, “Now I shall channel dragon energy!”
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2018
Natalie heard a yip from the front door and looked up.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
Brer Fox dropped to the ground and yipped in pain.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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
We watched from the upper bleachers as riders pounded past us at full gallop, yipping and yelling, foam flying from their horses’ mouths.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
