yap
verb (used without object)
to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
had yapped
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past perfectof yap.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Some reader, it seemed, had yapped that the News, which loves to scoff at "big $7 words," had itself been guilty lately of such windy words as "intolerable," "incompatibility," "vulnerable," and "genocide."
From Time Magazine Archive
The knave slunk back to Teramore; and for some weeks the Gray Wolf’s pack had yapped and yowled.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
