YELP in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for YELP, such as:
1. The puppy uttered a piteous yelp.
2. The little dog was yelping in the garden yet.
3. His companions were yelping in imitation of coyotes.
4. The water was hotter than she had expected, and she gave an involuntary yelp.
5. He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of YELP
yelp
 n.  eager bark or cry; sharp, quick bark or cry caused by fear or pain
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The puppy uttered a piteous yelp.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  And the Cossacks looked round in surprise at the sound, like the yelp of a dog, with which Denisov turned away, walked to the wattle fence, and seized hold of it.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XI
3  There was a sharp yelp, a flirt of the poodle's head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards away, and lit on its back once more.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Pilot pricked up his ears when I came in: then he jumped up with a yelp and a whine, and bounded towards me: he almost knocked the tray from my hands.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  Through the nerve-shivering sounds, she heard another sound, that of fear-sped feet coming up the stairs three at a time, heard a voice yelping like a lost hound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  She began yelping again shrilly and pinched Scarlett so hard she cried out in pain and fury and shook off her hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  There was the far-off yelping of possum dogs in the dark swamp under cool autumn moons and the smell of eggnog bowls, wreathed with holly at Christmas time and smiles on black and white faces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
8  His companions were yelping in imitation of coyotes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  She could hear the town yelping with it, every soul of them, gleeful at new details, panting to win importance by having details of their own to add.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  Moreover, he was a boy whom no man could hurt; an invulnerable and dodging serpent who, when chased into a corner, flew out again between his captor's legs, scornfully yelping.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
11  He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 21
12  With happy, exhausted faces, they laid the old wolf, alive, on a shying and snorting horse and, accompanied by the dogs yelping at her, took her to the place where they were all to meet.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
13  Now it would roll on its back, yelping with delight, now bask in the sun with a thoughtful air of importance, and now frolic about playing with a chip of wood or a straw.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
14  The little dog was yelping in the garden yet.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  As they started, the dog yelped, and leaped at the horses' heads, till Kennicott took him into the buggy, where he nuzzled Carol's knees and leaned out to sneer at farm mongrels.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  Whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it.
2  The water was hotter than she had expected, and she gave an involuntary yelp.
3  Sarcastic cameos of barking Tory predators and their yelping spouses indicate his accomplices in this enterprise.