How to Use yell in a Sentence

yell

1 of 2 verb

• The crowd was yelling wildly.
• We saw people yelling for help.
• I heard someone yelling my name.
• The driver sat on the roof of the truck, yelling for help.
  — Chris Gloninger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• Each time the door opened, yelling came from the floor below.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• And [my parents] would yell at me to get off the games.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
• My mom yelled at me to stop and told me the spray was poison.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Martin, 56, who lives in Crenshaw, yelled from the front of the store.
  — Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Cure then falls face-up on the ground, and Aldridge can be heard yelling for Cure to stay down.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Thomas claimed the suspect then yelled a racial slur, per FOX 12.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
• One of the bound people, a man, was yelling for help, police said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Avoid yelling and screaming, and do not speak or act in anger.
  — Shaun Dreisbach, Parents, 23 Jan. 2024
• To which the Fort Worth crowd happily yells right back.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
• In one clip, the woman can be heard yelling from the ground for a commander.
  — Laura Studley, CNN, 4 July 2023
• Someone can be heard in the background yelling the N-word.
  — Ali Gostanian, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Observers stared, laughed, yelled, and rushed to call the police, but the man ignored them.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• In the footage, a flight attendant yelled at the woman to return to her seat.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• Sosa emerged, started to yell at her, and took the knife from her, cutting her hand.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Don’t do that and don’t yell at me with your sunglasses on.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• Militants knocked on the door of the safe room, yelling at the family to open it or be shot.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Fins and skin, the coolest came out in the wind and the rain – booming, yelling, bursting, branding them that stayed home to the end as lame.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• He had been followed out of the subway by a group of strangers jeering at him and yelling slurs.
  — Jason Sarlanis, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
• The only thing that saved him and his family: A neighbor yelling from the street.
  — Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• His older brother, Momin Jan Shams, got on the phone and yelled and cursed and urged him to come back home.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
• The man appeared to have filmed the protest, and yelled ‘’Free Palestine’’ before collapsing to the ground.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
• Everybody keeps yelling that this was some sort of deal that was too good.
  — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Azure works her way back and forth across the route, taking turns yelling the phrase out to her mom and hearing it back.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
• Check it out: As Kat yells, Christina goes to her happy place.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• Every few booths, people waved and yelled out with greetings and a warm smile.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• The outlet reported that Palas started to yell and wave his hands as the mother bear chased the cub up the hill.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023

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yell

2 of 2 noun

• And at the end of the chorus, that whole primal sing-yell thing came out.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2022
• Some inmates would bang on the walls and yell for hours on end.
  — Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• The game was tied at 1, and Odor let out a fist pump and a yell toward his dugout.
  — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2022
• The 7-foot 1 freshman tipped the ball in with two hands, turned, clenched his fists and let out a yell.
  — Doug Haller, azcentral, 9 Mar. 2018
• So, If anyone knows that city and that state, give a yell.
  — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2022
• Onto the television comes Pacino again with the beard and the crown and the horse and the yell.
  — Jimmy Breslin, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2017
• Thompson isn’t prone to get in a teammate’s face and yell at them.
  — oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2021
• When Tiafoe sent a forehand wide to end it, Zverev let out two big yells.
  — Howard Fendrich, Baltimore Sun, 3 June 2023
• When women cry out in pain, the nurses yell and beat them.
  — Abby Haglage, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2018
• Mia Manganello crossed the finish line, glanced at the videoboard and let out a yell.
  — Beth Harris, chicagotribune.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• Pillar homered over the Monster in the fourth, letting out a brief yell after the crack of the bat.
  — Ken Powtak, Star Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• Officers heard a man’s voice yell to the dog to be quiet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
• Body-camera footage shows a deputy yell for the car’s occupants to step out.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
• The Lakers center then let out a primal yell, flexed and mean-mugged.
  — Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• That’s when Lindquist started to ‘‘yell and freak out,’’ Correa said.
  — Meagan Flynn, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
• The position that allows thugs to get in your face and yell, curse and degrade you.
  — Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal, 22 Sep. 2020
• With two lines of drummers and singers at the back, dancers would step forward to jump and wave and yell to express their joy.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• Arenado took a hop step after crossing the plate, let out a yell and punched the air.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2021
• The standing-room only crowd followed in kind with their own yells.
  — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2017
• Bauer let out a yell to celebrate the out as Barnhart, the catcher, pumped his fist.
  — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• At first, the sound was discordant, a mixture of yells and whistles and the general chaos of the crowd.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019
• The entire dugout mirrors the symbol, as well, while letting out a loud yell.
  — Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
• Grab your favorite dessert and yell at the television with the whole fam in this ugly (read: adorable) sweater.
  — Rachel Bogo, Seventeen, 16 Nov. 2022
• When the victim with the keys appears to struggle opening the door, the suspects throw punches and yell curse words.
  — Fox News, 8 Dec. 2021
• Aquino let out a yell after connecting on a 93-mph fastball at the top of the strike zone for his first homer of the season.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 15 Apr. 2022
• Wave your arms in the air and yell at the coyote — throw things such as sticks toward them — without hitting them, of course!
  — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
• Ashcraft pumped his fist and let out a yell in celebration.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 3 May 2023
• After one of his first stops, Flowe slapped the turf, jumped to his feet and arched his back with a yell of jubilation.
  — oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2021
• Her third one, bounced on the front of the rim, tipped to backboard and fell in to put Arizona ahead 56-44 as McDonald clenched both fists and gave a yell.
  — Jim Vertuno, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• The thing inside him that gave a yell or a tug or a shout now and again was not the sickness Freddie ministered to, more and more.
  — Colson Whitehead, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021

Last Updated: 5 May 2024