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- noun Plural form of
yowl . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
yowl .
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Examples
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This news was greeted with the expected yowls from the expected sources that:
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In a conversational style, Mr. John sings at the bottom of his range, but as the music builds and the lovers finally come together, he suddenly yowls "I don't want to lose you again" as if he dreads the abject pain.
Saying It With Snowflakes Jim Fusilli 2011
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Mascis's strangulated yowls with more folky moments—all of them as warm, fuzzy and itchy as a fleece sweater.
Getting the Band Back Together Andy Beta 2011
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His tongue is a long ways out, and his eyes like covered with cobwebs; but still he scratches the man's chest with his hind-feet and the man yow-yowls like a hen of the mountains.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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Loyalty is directed by Edward Hall in a tumultuous cacophony of bleeps and special ringtones and ordinary telephone purrings and burglar-alarm yowls and sirens and doorbells which, unusually, catches the aural confusion of personal and public demands.
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His bug-eyed expressions and yowls of exasperation don't give us a jot of insight into his obtuse character.
'Furry Vengeance': Coarse family film is a slapstick stinker 2010
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I use it when my cats fight, and when my male cat yowls at 5am.
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Every now and then some would-be curmudgeon rises up on his hind legs and yowls at the sky that the latest form of social networking is a blight on the cultural landscape and proves that people have nothing better to do than post pictures of their pets in various shocking forms of dishabille.
MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry? 2009
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The yeast yowls a toast, raises a glass and a serenade.
Baking Bread Jane Flett 2011
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Mr Austin an assurance by the enclosed Note to him, and under all these circumstances I trust with a strengthened confidence in the ultimate triumph of affection over the yowls of our bosom pride, and the crackers of resentment.
Letter 98 2009
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