yap
verb (used without object)
to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
are yapping
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present progressiveof yap.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“That’s a real issue too, because we can sort of say, ‘Well, we don’t have to be as responsive to this group of journalists who are yapping at our knees every day,’” Mr. McCurry said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
It seems," wrote he, "that we still have with us the volunteer embalmers who are yapping that the theater is dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
All of a sudden all of you are yapping at me because I've played the game.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
This was the game: In bad weather, when the ports are closed and first-class passengers are yapping for air, it is the province of the engine room to see that they get it.
From Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Have you really no idea what these are, these glass buttons you are yapping about?
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
