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Recent Examples of yowl
Noun
There are whistles and toe taps and yowls and warbles and percussion produced by acrylic nails. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024 Unfortunately for the would-be lesbian lovers on the run, crazy screaming lady — whose raspy yowl ensnares the listener in a juddering time loop — has other ideas. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
Verb
Cameron Winter yowls a cappella, with a delivery that would do Jon Spencer proud, before a distorted guitar spirals over pattering drums. Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023 Cat jump scares, featuring felines yowling or hiding in a cabinet, peaked in the early 1970s and have since dwindled to nearly nothing. Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for yowl 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yowl
Verb
  • Many residents at the town hall complained about feeling unsafe at their local Giant or Weis supermarkets, seeing panhandlers, loitering and graffiti in and around these areas.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Some of the agency’s top Middle East diplomats complained in private that they were sidelined by Biden’s National Security Council.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Seacrest encouraged him to bay back, setting Sawyer up for a howling good time.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
  • And gunning mallards in a howling snowstorm is an all-time iconic duck hunting experience.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the Miami-Dade criminal justice system, Hollis, with her shouts of asesino and accusatory posts on her barren Facebook page, ranked as big a menace as vicious stalkers and wife-beaters.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In her performances, Ado’s shouts and screams richly express the full range of negative emotions, such as anger, sadness, fear, disgust, pity, frustration, and jealousy.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 1 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In the clip, Scout, Tallulah, and Rumer, along with a group of friends and family, jump and scream as Moore’s name is called out by Kerry Washington, who presented the award alongside Andrew Garfield.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2025
  • My cat's preference is screaming from the bath tub for someone to open the faucet for her.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The sailors’ splashes and cries, along with the debris from the sinking ship, likely signaled to the sharks that an easy feast was at hand.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • But the heartbreaking cries continued as the video showed him in another part of the home.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Seems to be the only real way to get everybody to stop whining about the seeding.
    Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Rather than a bark or even a regular whining sound, Enzo has surprised social media users by showing off his unexpected squeaking noises.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Audubon Bird Guide describes its song as a flat, harsh shriek.
    Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The screams eventually reach a crescendo, as video shows the shrieks getting gradually louder and louder until the group stopped.
    Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Jasmine moans with pleasure as Gino traces her legs with his tongue.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Many of the patients were critically ill and moaning in pain from broken bones, head gashes and other injuries blamed on Tropical Storm Helene.
    Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Yowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yowl. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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