yowl

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose,” Joplin sang in her signature blues-rock yowl — perhaps the best-known piece of wisdom in Kristofferson’s very wise catalog.

Whenever a stone hit my shoulder or my back, I would yowl like a dog, hoping to light some sort of pity in their hearts, even though—as I said—I knew these men, and this was the kindness of their hearts.

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

Every time a lawyer or a judge tries to impose legally mandated consequences on Trump for his multitude of crimes, a chorus rises up to yowl that he will only get stronger for it.

Adam looks up from his phone every now and again and starts to see a chair in his apartment rocking of its own free will; his cats gather at the door and yowl.