yelping 1 of 2

present participle of yelp

yelping

2 of 2

adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for yelping
Verb
  • Cut to a young girl shrieking, her face covered in blood.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
  • For subscribers, that makes now the perfect time to catch up on the horror film that had audiences shrieking, laughing and running to Reddit to compare notes.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Now, Darvish will get to pitch in front of a stadium of screaming, hopeful, nervous Cubs fans.
    Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s screaming electric guitar AND an orchestra.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That’s upset some fans, especially the kind of whiny babies who never like anything.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 25 July 2025
  • Daniels is morose and whiny and Reynolds is hammy and over-the-top, which allows Stone to steal the movie, giving it its only modicum of zest and soul.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 23 July 2025
Verb
  • One of the first major highlights showed the moment Mei Xiang birthed a squealing Xiao Qi Ji and cradled her newborn cub.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There was yelling, taunting and cursing from fans.
    Bob Harkins, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Especially the guy who was yelling at him on media day.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Carney won an election in April with a strident message for Canadians, warning that theirrelationship with America would change dramatically in the coming years.
    Paula Newton, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For days, the National Weather Service had been issuing increasingly strident warnings.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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
Adjective
  • 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
  • Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Yelping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yelping. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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