holler
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"But the kid inside of you wants to break out and just hoot and holler."
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
During Idioteque, guitarist Ed O'Brien catches him mid-transit, and they holler the lyrics directly to one another.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
The glorious holler of the V12—equivalent to six Italian superbikes—would make a statue of Enzo Ferrari cry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
“There would be times where I’d holler at him out there like, ‘Hey!’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
What Trepid hadn’t reckoned on was that Z had known Tiller and Sairy most of his life, and that Z’s cabin was over the far side of the holler, which made Z their nearest neighbor.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
“Palms up, invite those bids,” he hollers to everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
But us football fans must recognize that not everyone hoots and hollers for the conversion on a long third down or a legendary pick six.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025
There were heartening hollers, dramatic dashes when chances were created and applause for the application of her players throughout.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
A man among them hollers, “We’ll build a new San Francisco!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
Boiling hollers and fried shrieks swarmed over our heads.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
“I’m going to watch,” he hollered that day, “just like all of you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
Eight men sliding 16 stones down an ice sheet to the soundtrack of clunking granite, furious sweeping and hollered commands of "hard" and "curl".
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
The man, Marshall Wilson, 46, then hollered at Reichert, according to a memo from the Yellowstone County prosecutor’s office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had hollered a similar message in a warmup speech to the senior officers.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
So I gave those trees another chance to reply and hollered, “I said, ‘Hello,’ everybody.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Last year, “The Minecraft Movie” had children hollering in theaters but few stakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Fans dressed in approximations of her floaty ballgowns and 1920s flapper dresses, hollering lyrics like mantras.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
At the end of the film, as homeless San Franciscans camp in a park and mourn their dead, a kid runs up hollering, “Fire’s out!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
Because December 2006's goal of the month contest was powerful stuff; a 100%-proof cocktail of hollering commentators and screaming shots as semtex insteps hit the ball with gleeful abandon.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024
Then, taking a deep breath, letting the air swell her chest, she belted out, “Sweet pea, sweet pea, sweeeeeeet pea!” as if “sweet pea” was somebody far away she was hollering at.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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