yell
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“He’s right behind you!” we yell at the screen, watching from between our fingers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
“The only consequence is that people might yell at me online.”
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
“You can get away with everything that you’re angry about and want to yell about. If you make them laugh first, people tend to listen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Surely some of this is the doldrums of late summer and the lack of sports stuff to yell about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We can yell if we need help. We gotta see which tunnel is the best one to go in, and we’d lose time checking each one out together. We’ve gotta split up.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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She feigns outrage loudly, according to people who like her, and yells maniacally, according to people who don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Keep your jaw open,” someone yells, “it helps.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Class of 1975,” yells someone from the crowd.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
“The Knicks just won a championship, we were so happy,” she yells out, petting her dog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
“Isaiah, get back in that car!” yells Mama.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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But now, I seriously doubted anyone was going to hand me a bronze statue for the way I yelled at my kids for not finishing their chicken nuggets.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
She said she had seen him frequently on the university grounds in front of her building and had an alarming encounter when he yelled at her in the street the prior week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Olé, they yelled, as if spectators at a bullfight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
“You remember, don’t you, Mr. Cosby?” she yelled across the courtroom.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
I yelled, and I crossed my arms and shook my head back and forth with my eyes closed, my pigtails snapping in the air like whips.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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Steve likens its dynamics then to a restaurant, with “a lot of screaming and yelling going on in that kitchen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
There are shouts of panic from the Palestinian farmers, yelling for children to get out of the field.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Even when everyone is yelling at me, people will hear what I’m saying.”
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Their constant screaming and yelling is a feature of the play’s meta-satire.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
When her throat hurts from yelling, she leans against the wall, buries her face in the crook of her elbow, and tries to swallow a shuddering sob.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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