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yowl

noun as in long, loud animate sound

verb as in utter a long, loud animate sound

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“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.

“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.

She was making her way from the parking lot to the hospital when she heard yowling coming from some bushes.

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

Curled up in his bed, Abel listened despondently to the howling and yowling, the lashing and whistling of the wind.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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