yowl

But they had connected him to a current of fury, and the urge to yowl for justice or revenge flooded his throat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

He lacked the abrasiveness or gruffness found in many metal singers, opting instead for a theatrical melodic yowl with silvery overtones.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025

“Noid” was dense and menacing, Tyler’s flow somewhere between a growl and a yowl; “Darling, I” was light and whimsical but almost painfully yearning too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024

To communicate, they grunt and yowl and gesture with a serio-comic zeal that earned my reluctant admiration.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

The cat gave a guttural yowl, then deliberately ran ahead, looking back as he paused beyond the range of firelight.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

He had heard a tip from some former clients that the mournful yowls of lynx had been heard overnight near the public viewing area, so we reinstalled ourselves nearby on his secret mountain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Robotnik, who also goes by the name Eggman, eggs them on with gleeful yowls.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

Actually, sometimes he yowls at 4AM because he doesn’t like eating alone, making us sit with him as he chows down on kibble.

From The Verge ● Dec. 24, 2021

“We are sprinkler kids,” Kimberly King Parsons writes in one of 12 fantastic stories in her new collection of enchanting yowls from a big and wild Texas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2019

I tell David about the fox I saw with a gray body and a red head, and he tells me about his aunt’s Siamese cat that yowls just for the pure joy of making noise.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

John Wall skipped and yowled at the end of practice Saturday.

From Washington Times ● May 14, 2017

During the ride, Grenoble periodically yowled in pain and complained about the handcuffs, at one point saying he couldn’t feel his hands.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2015

In "Tupelo," Cave yowled of a prodigal infant born into the world, its future preordained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2014

Westerberg and Stinson yowled their vocals like stray cats, and Foley crisply, deftly negotiated the rhythmic turns on "Merry Go Round."

From Chicago Tribune ● Jul. 5, 2011

Though I could not fight them, I yowled so ferociously that the courtroom crowd—traitors, all of them!—hissed and scattered.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

“Good morning, babies!” she says with a Fozzie Bear voice, feeding chunks of Pup-peroni to two yowling huskies and a wiggly black lab.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

"It's three-tiered, with a nasal low register, a yowling, cutting middle range and a high register so startlingly clear it sounds like a falsetto," Pareles wrote in a 1987 concert review.

From Reuters ● May 24, 2023

Goldthwait dwells on the slings and arrows of fame for his yowling stage persona in the 1980s and ’90s, when he could resemble the Tasmanian devil at a dinner party.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021

Then for the next four hours I heard a small boy crying, whimpering and yowling.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021

He stood on the far bank, barking encouragingly, but the old dog whined in such distress, the cat yowling in chorus, that he swam across again, paddling around in the shallows near the bank.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford