Example Sentences

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Beneath us, children played with buckets and shovels; dogs dozed and yapped; and a cast of more than a dozen sang of delayed flights and exploding volcanoes to a spare, insistently catchy electronic score.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2021

And as I feared last week, the guys in the booth yapped way too much, including talking over a mic’d up Tiger and Phil.

From Golf Digest • Nov. 27, 2018

In the Madison Square Park dog run, we went unnoticed until a Pomeranian caught sight of us and yapped so rambunctiously that the seal and I took refuge in a nearby Starbucks.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

Both wagged their tails excitedly when someone came to their kennel and yapped sadly when that person walked away.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2017

A lady in the grocery store fanned herself as a little dog yapped through the screen door.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool