How to Use yowl in a Sentence

yowl

1 of 2 verb
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Synonyms for yowlnext
  • He was yowling in pain.
  • The cat was yowling outside.
  • The brown mutts yowled into the blackness of the forest.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Or your just moved-in, very sweet neighbors with the sick, yowling cat?
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Some breeds, like Siamese cats, meow and yowl more than others.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
  • The puppies, blissful as only puppies can be, yipped and yowled, wagged their tails, yawned, ate grass and were brutally, painfully adorable.
    — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Detuned guitars warble from the corners of songs; the visuals go medieval; the dark lord Ozzy Osbourne yowls one chorus.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2019
  • My normally mild-mannered dog lost her mind, yowling and dancing around the kitchen until someone, anyone, would give her even the smallest morsel of cheese.
    — Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Sirens yowled and vents whistled; a motorcycle potato-potato-potatoed and a can skittered on the concrete.
    — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
  • In normal times, life in any city means a constant barrage of sounds: car horns, yowling cats, heated arguments from windows overhead—often over inconsequential things.
    — Samer Kalaf, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Some, at 15, were already fantasizing about marshaling breakfast for whining, barking, yowling households.
    — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • He was yowling in pain.
  • The cat was yowling outside.
  • The brown mutts yowled into the blackness of the forest.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Or your just moved-in, very sweet neighbors with the sick, yowling cat?
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Some breeds, like Siamese cats, meow and yowl more than others.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
  • The puppies, blissful as only puppies can be, yipped and yowled, wagged their tails, yawned, ate grass and were brutally, painfully adorable.
    — Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Detuned guitars warble from the corners of songs; the visuals go medieval; the dark lord Ozzy Osbourne yowls one chorus.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2019
  • My normally mild-mannered dog lost her mind, yowling and dancing around the kitchen until someone, anyone, would give her even the smallest morsel of cheese.
    — Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Sirens yowled and vents whistled; a motorcycle potato-potato-potatoed and a can skittered on the concrete.
    — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
  • In normal times, life in any city means a constant barrage of sounds: car horns, yowling cats, heated arguments from windows overhead—often over inconsequential things.
    — Samer Kalaf, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Some, at 15, were already fantasizing about marshaling breakfast for whining, barking, yowling households.
    — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
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yowl

2 of 2 noun
  • Miley Cyrus, in her rodeo yowl on the song, warns some boy to quit it with the pet names.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The Stones tucked lifelong blues scholarship behind the kick and yowl of the music.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • All around, Siamese cat yowls, phone camera clicks and gasps at adorableness traveled through the air.
    — Ileana Najarro, Houston Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The wind rose to a sustained yowl, shredded the treetops, racked the old lean-to, seemed to be swelling toward a terrible end.
    — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 2 Sep. 2015
  • Kittens yowl on the dashboard of her old truck, whose windows are up despite the stifling heat.
    — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
  • The cat bites with vehemence and a yowl that communicates even to the unschooled.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Then, a human yowl cuts through with the urgency of a distress signal.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2022
  • But, when Yarielis suddenly turned red, opening her mouth in a silent, tearful yowl, the children screamed for their mother to help her.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The offending yowl had come out of an amplifier, though the issue didn’t involve the amp alone but the fact that it was connected to a hollow-box guitar.
    — David Kirby, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The frontman’s last yowl during this section surely rattled the concert hall’s lobby chandelier.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 25 Sep. 2013
  • Hearses and Gucci furs and callous relationship advice and desperate questioning all get strung together in drowsy yowls with strikingly logical syntax.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2019
  • As usual, his instinctive approach and trademark yowl created additional ambiguities: there are ghost words here.
    — Brad Shoup, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Miley Cyrus, in her rodeo yowl on the song, warns some boy to quit it with the pet names.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The Stones tucked lifelong blues scholarship behind the kick and yowl of the music.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • All around, Siamese cat yowls, phone camera clicks and gasps at adorableness traveled through the air.
    — Ileana Najarro, Houston Chronicle, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The wind rose to a sustained yowl, shredded the treetops, racked the old lean-to, seemed to be swelling toward a terrible end.
    — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 2 Sep. 2015
  • Kittens yowl on the dashboard of her old truck, whose windows are up despite the stifling heat.
    — By Michael Browning, miamiherald, 25 Aug. 2015
  • The cat bites with vehemence and a yowl that communicates even to the unschooled.
    — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Then, a human yowl cuts through with the urgency of a distress signal.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2022
  • But, when Yarielis suddenly turned red, opening her mouth in a silent, tearful yowl, the children screamed for their mother to help her.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The offending yowl had come out of an amplifier, though the issue didn’t involve the amp alone but the fact that it was connected to a hollow-box guitar.
    — David Kirby, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The frontman’s last yowl during this section surely rattled the concert hall’s lobby chandelier.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 25 Sep. 2013
  • Hearses and Gucci furs and callous relationship advice and desperate questioning all get strung together in drowsy yowls with strikingly logical syntax.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2019
  • As usual, his instinctive approach and trademark yowl created additional ambiguities: there are ghost words here.
    — Brad Shoup, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2022

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