yawp

Example Sentences

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That would be Kathryn Bigelow’s “Point Break,” a primal yawp of transcendence that is indeed, to borrow the immortal words of Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi, 100% pure adrenaline.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020

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