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yowl

[yaul] / jaʊl /




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But they had connected him to a current of fury, and the urge to yowl for justice or revenge flooded his throat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

The cathartic yowl at the start of his debut solo single, “Crazy Train,” was telling: “All aboooooardd!”

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

At 61, Rose's vocals aren't what they once were, but he can still pull off a wolverine yowl when he warms up - and his snarling delivery remains convincingly menacing.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2023

Then Loretta sings, in an ominous feline yowl: “Well … has anybody here seen Sweet Thang?”

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

I heard him yowl, heard his toes clip-clopping on the floor as he struggled to break free before the door slammed behind me.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

He had heard a tip from some former clients that the mournful yowls of lynx had been heard overnight near the public viewing area, so we reinstalled ourselves nearby on his secret mountain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

“I feel like letting my freak flag fly,” Crosby yowls over dueling electric guitars in this beautifully scratchy declaration of weirdo pride.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

Robotnik, who also goes by the name Eggman, eggs them on with gleeful yowls.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

Actually, sometimes he yowls at 4AM because he doesn’t like eating alone, making us sit with him as he chows down on kibble.

From The Verge ● Dec. 24, 2021

I tell David about the fox I saw with a gray body and a red head, and he tells me about his aunt’s Siamese cat that yowls just for the pure joy of making noise.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

She checked in with her sister, who once worked at an animal shelter, and learned that cats that yowled were either in distress, in heat or lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024

John Wall skipped and yowled at the end of practice Saturday.

From Washington Times ● May 14, 2017

During the ride, Grenoble periodically yowled in pain and complained about the handcuffs, at one point saying he couldn’t feel his hands.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2015

Westerberg and Stinson yowled their vocals like stray cats, and Foley crisply, deftly negotiated the rhythmic turns on "Merry Go Round."

From Chicago Tribune ● Jul. 5, 2011

One by one, each child yowled a greeting.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Laguna Beach responds to hundreds of complaints each year about dogs unnerving residents with loud or persistent barking and yowling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

"It's three-tiered, with a nasal low register, a yowling, cutting middle range and a high register so startlingly clear it sounds like a falsetto," Pareles wrote in a 1987 concert review.

From Reuters ● May 24, 2023

The yowling prince Lewis Capaldi has made hay from singing himself hoarse, his hits filled with raw eruptions of schlock so potent they transcend past corn into something far more cooked.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

Then for the next four hours I heard a small boy crying, whimpering and yowling.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021

If it is, it isn’t yowling for milk, Matt thought.There was a level of terror and despair in that sound that made the hair stand up on his neck.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer


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