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One of the gassiest debates in the NBA—and this is a gassy sport, its obsessive followers will yap about it until the ears tumble off your head—concerns what player is the “Face of the Sport.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

At night, hungry coyotes yap and howl beyond the walls of Deborah’s ample, manicured yard.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

So, when the birds don't move around or yap in open spaces, that makes things more challenging for the humans.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

On a quiet weekday evening inside a restaurant in Brooklyn, a dog under a table announced its presence with a single pronounced yap.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

“Gid- yap, let’s get a move on,” he said, encouraging the car up a hill.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

There were a few joggers and a couple of people fishing directly from the beach, but it was otherwise peaceful, punctuated only by the dull roar of lapping waves and Tobi’s occasional yaps.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2016

A small boy half-heartedly kicks a deflated plastic ball in and out of the parked cars and a dog, home alone in one of the terraced houses, repeatedly yaps his indignation.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2016

And yet it’s hard to deny the pleasure of watching somebody who yaps and yaps and yaps and then goes right out there and delivers on the yap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2015

"He is not a guy who yaps all the time, so what he says is usually pretty significant."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2015

While Tater gushed, all the humans heard was a frantic series of high-pitched yaps.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

As Buckingham and I chatted about his new music, the canine quintet periodically yapped and jawed at one another in the foyer like, well … Fleetwood Mac making “Rumours,” probably.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

And as I feared last week, the guys in the booth yapped way too much, including talking over a mic’d up Tiger and Phil.

From Golf Digest ● Nov. 27, 2018

In the Madison Square Park dog run, we went unnoticed until a Pomeranian caught sight of us and yapped so rambunctiously that the seal and I took refuge in a nearby Starbucks.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018

Both wagged their tails excitedly when someone came to their kennel and yapped sadly when that person walked away.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2017

Most of these shacks were guarded by thin dogs, that yapped at the children from the shade under the houses.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

I’m a part of the problem, too, yapping about this silly kerfuffle six months out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025

The yapping mutts were just a sideshow, however, to the main event, which was announced from a dais by Sarah Furness, a local dignitary: the unveiling of Britain’s first memorial statue to Queen Elizabeth II.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

In 2009, a lawyer who lived on Central Park West filed a suit claiming that the intense “whining, barking, yapping and squealing” by her neighbor’s two Chihuahuas was causing agonizing back pain.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

And before Genie could even tell him about Grandpop’s inside-outside room, Ernie steamrolled him and proceeded to spend the next seven jillion hours going on and on, yapping about how cool Tess was.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds