yawp
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That would be Kathryn Bigelow’s “Point Break,” a primal yawp of transcendence that is indeed, to borrow the immortal words of Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi, 100% pure adrenaline.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020
An adaptation of James McBride’s boisterous yawp of a novel about the messianic abolitionist John Brown is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.
From New York Times • May 27, 2020
Here in stone and glass and wood was an eruption of human potential – a victorious yawp in the face of benightedness.
From Fox News • Apr. 16, 2019
I watched him nimbly pop up onto his surfboard and disappear with a barbaric yawp over the crest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2016
Tiny runs up to us and puts a paw on each of our shoulders and lets forth a yawp of joy.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
Vocabulary lists containing yawp
"Song of Myself," Vocabulary from the poem
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