holler
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"But the kid inside of you wants to break out and just hoot and holler."
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
The glorious holler of the V12—equivalent to six Italian superbikes—would make a statue of Enzo Ferrari cry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
High school, college, med school, it’s all the same: You dress up, get there early, sweat in the sunshine, and holler like hell when the grad’s name gets called.
From Slate ● May 27, 2025
The women whistle and holler at the sheep, goats and yaks to stop them straying from the narrow paths and falling down the mountainside.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
Bono begged, and the man raised his head and put his hand to his mouth, awaiting some move to holler.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Cosby defined it to me as “books that took noir existentialism out the cities and the back and brought it down into the hills and the hollers, the low country.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
One of the lesser-known tragedies is the story of Gary Stewart, a bar-prowling, hard-living singer from the hollers of eastern Kentucky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
But us football fans must recognize that not everyone hoots and hollers for the conversion on a long third down or a legendary pick six.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025
There were heartening hollers, dramatic dashes when chances were created and applause for the application of her players throughout.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
Aunts with collards and yams, cousins with hoots and hollers, and runny noses.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
“I’m going to watch,” he hollered that day, “just like all of you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
Eight men sliding 16 stones down an ice sheet to the soundtrack of clunking granite, furious sweeping and hollered commands of "hard" and "curl".
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Spivey hollered at Boyd to stop following him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Cronin went on to tell Dent that if he hollered at him about defense in practice, he would be doing his job to help him play in the NBA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
“Beans! Your pa’s on the horn!” he hollered.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Last year, “The Minecraft Movie” had children hollering in theaters but few stakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Fans dressed in approximations of her floaty ballgowns and 1920s flapper dresses, hollering lyrics like mantras.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
TMZ posted video of Ja Rule hollering from the aisle as another man tries to calm him down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Because December 2006's goal of the month contest was powerful stuff; a 100%-proof cocktail of hollering commentators and screaming shots as semtex insteps hit the ball with gleeful abandon.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024
They both ran over, whooping and hollering along with the rest of the Ridgefolk.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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