nipping
Example Sentences
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Responding to a call, Susan Clark of Topanga Animal Rescue witnessed BB14 facing down yipping coyotes, with her cubs up a tree.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Jack is a living, yipping, randomly peeing antidepressant.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2022
To support the medical community, Shelby-ites young and old unwind with unfettered howling and yipping - they’re Coyotes, after all - at 8 p.m. nightly.
From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2020
Maria Vallardes came to the door in slippered feet, a pomeranian yipping behind her.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2020
He reverted to all fours and bounded across the room, dodging the flames, yipping as a hungry blaze singed his beautiful snow-sky tail.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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