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 Marshall, Bernard Gay