yelping 1 of 2

adjective

as in squealing

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verb

present participle of yelp
as in shrieking
to cry out loudly and emotionally yelped with surprise when everything fell off the closet shelf and onto his head

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Recent Examples of yelping
Adjective
The Dog Pound’s inhabitants will do more yelping than woofing. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
In body camera footage of the moment, the dogs can be heard yelping as officers open the back door of the vehicle. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026 How much yelping should a hunter do? — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026 Cantanucci’s property line is 72 feet away, but her hearing is such that the sound of balls bouncing and people yelping jumped the hedgerows. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026 On Monday night, Witt had one of the biggest stars in the game yelping like a Little Leaguer. — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026 Kids pulled in on sleds by their parents are yelping in glee, slipping and sliding around jaws of ice. — Stephanie Pearson, Outside, 19 Feb. 2026 Tomasi can be heard yelping and grabs at her leg when struck, the video shows. — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026 Start the day with yelping sea lions and a Coffee Girl latte at Pier 39, a 150-year-old former cannery, before hitting the town. — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yelping
  1. whiny
  2. shrieking
  3. strident
  4. screaming
  5. earsplitting
  6. squealing
  7. penetrating
  8. yelling
Adjective
  • And before the perpetually whiny and moronic peanut gallery says that sports teams have special nights all the time, that’s true, but celebrating heritage, or veterans who fought and died for this country is just an eency weency bit different than force-feeding the gay agenda at a ball game!
    — Tomi Lahren OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
  • An assortment of fake-looking whiny babies in flashy hippie outfits accompany a Lennon rant about the counterculture’s post-’60s disillusionment.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 May 2026
Definition of whiny
Verb
  • The addition of the electric guitar, drums and Jack White’s shrieking vocals transformed it into a rock song, while also keeping its signature folksiness.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The other customers cowered in the corners, while crowds formed at the windows outside, shrieking and recording the scene on their phones.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
Definition of shrieking
Adjective
  • The announcement from British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband in the House of Commons on Tuesday amounted to one of the most strident steps against Israeli settlements in recent years.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Merton did not believe in the cold war’s strident moral opposition between the free and unfree worlds.
    — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of strident
Verb
  • By the time the rock legends arrived, the black carpet was empty, aside from the herd of photographers and screaming fans.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Within seconds, protesters swarmed among the agents, screaming and holding their cellphones aloft.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of screaming
Adjective
  • Donald, Mark, Willie, Billy, and Tony — practically everyone in Hollis within shouting distance of 203rd Street was laughing at me at earsplitting volume.
    — Stephen A. Smith, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.
    — Bryce MillerColumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023
Definition of earsplitting
Verb
  • Video shot by OnScene TV on August 9 showed people rushing in and out of the store, some carrying merchandise, as roaring engines and squealing tires are heard in the background.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Who's signing up for France's annual pig-squealing championship?
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of squealing
Adjective
  • There are two types of TBIs, penetrating and non-penetrating.
    — Connie Etermadi, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.
    — Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Definition of penetrating
Verb
  • Yet tackling noise issues is challenging in part because the sources vary — think traffic on a busy street in Manhattan versus yelling in a neighboring room.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The trapped man was discovered when the driver of the Recology commercial collection truck was emptying a dumpster at a hotel on the 100 block of Mason Street and heard yelling, according to Robert Reed, a spokesman for Recology.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of yelling

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“Yelping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelping. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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