How to Use yips in a Sentence

yips

plural noun

• With the yips gone, the first-half goals must come if the U.S. want to win in the next window.
  — Drake Hills, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2022
• Howard, 28, struggled with the yips and was already released by the Reds once.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 4 May 2021
• Baylor with the walkoff field goal after the great montage of the holder having the yips in pregame warmups.
  — Destine Gibson, Dallas News, 28 Nov. 2020
• Regardless: There has been no sign of the chip yips this winter.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Football isn’t a sport where the yips is often discussed.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• The twisties are essentially like the yips in other sports.
  — Emily Giambalvo Washington Post, Star Tribune, 28 July 2021
• The Jazz are like a golfer with yips right now: their mind is preventing them from doing the things their bodies can do.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
• The M550i keeps challenging the driver's prompts with unwanted yips and moves.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 26 Mar. 2021
• Matzek’s comeback appearance came a day after the Rockies’ Daniel Bard, who battled his own case of the yips, pitched for the first time since 2013.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 28 July 2020
• Even Poeltl — who has quietly shaken his free-throw yips from earlier in the season — was a perfect 2 of 2.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2021
• Nor were there coyote yips or wolf howls piercing the night air in anticipation.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Mar. 2022
• This story and Helene Elliott’s excellent column explained what has to be the second scariest version of the yips (diving has to be the worst).
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
• But legal light had been over for a while, and the maniacal howls and yips of coyotes were all around me.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
• The moment the sun dipped below the ridge, the assembly let out a feral chorus of yips and howls.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• Bard, 37, conquered the yips and has pitched well for the Rockies the last three seasons and has become a team leader.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022
• The Rockies got the yips with two outs and Kwan at the plate.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 16 June 2022
• Soon, the operating room is full of healthy yips as the baby dogs — two boys and one girl — get acquainted with the world.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• Often, athletes who encounter the twisties or yips must go back to basics and carefully relearn the skills that trigger it.
  — Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2021