Yowling Definition & Meaning

Examples of yowl in a Sentence

Verb The cat was yowling outside. He was yowling in pain. Noun the cat gave a yowl of anger

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Some breeds, like Siamese cats, meow and yowl more than others. — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022 In normal times, life in any city means a constant barrage of sounds: car horns, yowling cats, heated arguments from windows overhead—often over inconsequential things. — Samer Kalaf, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2020 Sirens yowled and vents whistled; a motorcycle potato-potato-potatoed and a can skittered on the concrete. — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019 The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel. — Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019 Detuned guitars warble from the corners of songs; the visuals go medieval; the dark lord Ozzy Osbourne yowls one chorus. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2019 Some, at 15, were already fantasizing about marshaling breakfast for whining, barking, yowling households. — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019 Or your just moved-in, very sweet neighbors with the sick, yowling cat? — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018 My normally mild-mannered dog lost her mind, yowling and dancing around the kitchen until someone, anyone, would give her even the smallest morsel of cheese. — Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2018 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Then, a human yowl cuts through with the urgency of a distress signal. — New York Times, 27 June 2022 Stop pausing to yowl when a call doesn’t go your way. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2022 The wind rose to a sustained yowl, shredded the treetops, racked the old lean-to, seemed to be swelling toward a terrible end. — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 2 Sep. 2015 As usual, his instinctive approach and trademark yowl created additional ambiguities: there are ghost words here. — Brad Shoup, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2022 But, when Yarielis suddenly turned red, opening her mouth in a silent, tearful yowl, the children screamed for their mother to help her. — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2021 The song is a bluesy slow-burner packed with the singer's signature yowl, and is featured prominently in the Season 2 finale of the Juliette Lewis-starring FacebookWatch series Sacred Lies. — Claire Lobenfeld, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2020 Hearses and Gucci furs and callous relationship advice and desperate questioning all get strung together in drowsy yowls with strikingly logical syntax. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2019 Miley Cyrus, in her rodeo yowl on the song, warns some boy to quit it with the pet names. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2019 See More

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