How to Use yap in a Sentence

yap

verb

• Kids were yapping in the back of the room.
• The dog was yapping all night.
• She seems to spend all her time yapping on the phone.
• How to use it: When your dog won’t stop yapping, give it something to chew on.
  — Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Birds swoop beneath the basket, and confused dogs yap up at it.
  — Kate Maxwell, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• So are five yapping dogs, a couple of which are in as bad a mood as Jerry.
  — Jack McCallum, SI.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Dogs of all colors and varieties yap from their crates.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 18 Feb. 2018
• And with yapping dogs, best to slow down and then speed up, to throw them off their trajectory.
  — Andrew Tangel, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
• Consider that a good thing—who wants all the passengers seated around you yapping to the folks on the ground?
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
• Wade then stood in front of Anderson, yapping at the Sixer.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• And dogs have been known to yap and masticate their displeasure.
  — Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
• The door was unlocked, and Cinnamon the family’s Yorkie yapped at the friend’s ankles.
  — Max Londberg and Laura Bauer, kansascity.com, 7 June 2017
• They yap and annoy you and run around in circles endlessly.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 24 Nov. 2020
• But choosing a breed that's less likely to yap at every stimuli can set you up for success, too.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 27 June 2022
• That appeared to motivate the point guard, who yapped after every big play.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Both teams’ fans started chanting during the back-and-forth yapping between the players.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2018
• There were laughing vipers, yapping gargoyles, salamanders fanning the fire with their breath, and monsters that sneezed in the smoke.
  — Ken Follett, Smithsonian, 15 Apr. 2019
• The feisty players took turns yapping at each other and officials.
  — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2019
• Oh, and Richard Sherman and Baldwin yapped at each other pretty good for a time during practice.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• All of this suggests that your co-worker who won’t stop yapping about how keto will change your life might be completely right.
  — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• The Warriors needed leadership, not someone yapping at the refs.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 May 2023
• This parent yaps cluelessly as their child eats twigs, digs ditches, climbs a tree, impales himself on a chain link fence, and splays himself across the third base line singing show tunes.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• Wolff clearly seduced, weaseled, confused and finagled his sources to get them yapping.
  — Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, 11 Jan. 2018
• But whenever my big sister offered up a compliment, my heart yapped back like a tiny chihuahua.
  — Rachael Cusick, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2023
• Usually, some crazy pooch barrels along untethered and yaps away.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2017
• Taylor just won two more awards ... her concert doing fine ... and Mandy ... still yapping away ... forever bitter ....
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 20 May 2018
• Ball, who was reportedly yapping nonstop from the sidelines, had nothing to say after that.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 28 May 2017
• Kuipers scolded Neymar to stop yapping at him about uncalled fouls, then delivered a yellow card when Neymar slammed the ball with his hand after yet another didn’t go his way.
  — Matthew Futterman and Victor Mather, New York Times, 23 June 2018
• Poole animatedly exulted, and yapped, all the way back downcourt.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• Cruz even took a moment to chide lawmakers checking on the project's progress for yapping to the media because negative stories affect project marketing.
  — Paul Jenkins, Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024