yawp
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For every love ballad there’s a “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” a mournful yawp on the Irish Troubles that was actually written by U2 guitarist the Edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2022
An adaptation of James McBride’s boisterous yawp of a novel about the messianic abolitionist John Brown is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2020
Here in stone and glass and wood was an eruption of human potential – a victorious yawp in the face of benightedness.
From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2019
Today, those songs sound perplexingly catchy and maybe even influential — they seem to foreshadow the Auto-Tuned yawp of Young Thug, the incessant chatter of the Minions and plenty of digitally processed babble in between.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2017
Tiny runs up to us and puts a paw on each of our shoulders and lets forth a yawp of joy.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
Vocabulary lists containing yawp
"Song of Myself," Vocabulary from the poem
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