Example Sentences

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“Favoritism?” the mother is said to have yelped.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Or, as Doc Brown might have yelped, changes could have disastrous consequences.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

If ever underdogs have yelped for champions, the Anglo-Irish who did not move to Britain after bloody 1920 have.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had the Mayor of Chicago been in the McMillin Academic Theatre at Columbia University last week he might well have yelped and yarred in anti-British fury.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any fool could have talked glibly about setting the town on fire; any coward could have yelped about the danger of it, and improbability of success.

From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot