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Example sentences for "yells"

Lexicographically close words:
yellowing; yellowish; yellowness; yellows; yellowy; yelp; yelped; yelping; yelpings; yelps
  1. He set up renewed yells as they stuck, pestered, and stung.

  2. We heard their yells several times in our jaunt down shore, and saw several of them.

  3. And now, uttering the yells that the regular Tommies always utter when charging, they were on us with frightful impetus, just while we were repelling the frontal attack on the slope, and before we had time to divide to meet them.

  4. Air full of puffs of smoke where shells are bursting overhead, Scream of shrapnel over the trenches and yells of rage!

  5. Meanwhile the stage-manager's yells for Props have brought that culprit from the flies where he has been touching up a damp cloud with a paint brush.

  6. It was so natural; that's just the way he yells when I forget the morning papers.

  7. Antony Van Corlear--until all voice and sound became unintelligible, grunts of pain, yells of fury, and shouts of triumph mingling in one hideous clamor.

  8. A shower of stones and timbers gave us the light, and they withdrew with savage yells to open the siege once more.

  9. The bell above the judges' pavilion sounded, and a little whirlwind of running griffins dashed by amid the yells of a thousand natives in a dozen different tongues.

  10. We could plainly hear their cries and yells as they discovered our escape, and with a "heigh-ho-heigh!

  11. One of the sailors in dislodging a boulder lost his footing and went crashing down with it amid the derisive yells of the pirates.

  12. I am not going to tell you how we found all the able-bodied men and dogs on the island awaiting us, how they beat the jungle with frantic yells and shouts while we waited on the opposite side, or even how many pigs we shot.

  13. At the reports wild yells broke from the proas, and from the shore, now astern of us.

  14. I had no time to look round, but half a minute later I heard one of the cannon go off, followed by yells and screams from the water.

  15. Often during the night for hours together he would give vent to most unearthly yells and moans, destroying the rest and irritating the tempers of his neighbors and generally making night hideous.

  16. With more yells and genuflections, another now drew from the fire several iron skewers, some of which he thrust into the inner side of his cheeks and others into his throat at the larynx, where they were left for a while to hang.

  17. From all around yells of the Jorth faction attested to their excitement and fury.

  18. Shrill yells behind warned him that he had been seen, that his reason for flight had been guessed.

  19. The populace thronged the streets; and the news brought by the horsemen that a considerable portion of the Christian host had been defeated and slain, passed from mouth to mouth, and was received with yells of exultation.

  20. They made desperate attempts to stop the ponies, but the wild yells of the Pawnees had frightened them into a panic and they were beyond control.

  21. Their piercing yells echoed shrilly across the plain, and put new terror into the hearts of the fleeing Kiowas.

  22. Then the wild yells of the Pawnees sounded from the edge of the water.

  23. As we sat before the house, in the afternoon and evening, we heard from time to time yells and cries above.

  24. With this ghostly chanting drawing nearer to the Lieutenant and his men and the weird yells of the Germans occasionally splitting the night, there was no thought of surrender.

  25. All that was sham, but this was startlingly real to the boy, as, at each thrust, he saw blood start, and heard the yells of pain given by the receivers of the point.

  26. A roar of shouts and hysterical yells shook the building.

  27. With yells of dismay, they charged back, out of that hornet's nest, as if the devil was after them.

  28. The whizzing bullets, the heavy storming columns pouring upon us, the yells and cries of the combatants were enough to excite anybody, but this fellow was just as easy and deliberate as if he had been shooting at a mark.

  29. As to the whooping and yells you talk so much about, I should think nothing of them; they are no more to be regarded than the shrieks of women, or the braying of donkeys.

  30. The yells of the Indians, the screams and cries of the provincials, mingled with the sharp crack of rifles or the duller sound of the musket.

  31. At this juncture, the Madden's Hill band of loyal supporters opened up with a mingling of shrill yells and whistles and jangling of tin cans filled with pebbles.

  32. Steady up, old man," called Gregg between the yells of the bleachers.

  33. The yells of mortal terror, for such they had been, with which he had so long filled the forest, were changed to shrieks of rapture, as soon as he beheld help approach in the person of the astonished soldier.

  34. The savage recoiled, and with loud yells of "The Jibbenainosay!

  35. In the Assembly the yells from the galleries are frightful; the voices of those who speak against dethronement are overpowered; so great are the hooting, the speakers are driven out of the tribune.

  36. Their exultation had turned into blind panic now, and with yells of dismay they broke and fled.

  37. The vibration of whoops and yells was deafening, stunning, in the pearly dawn.

  38. A family might at midnight hear the redskins' dreadful yells and die fleeing from the fierce savages, even while flames devoured their home.

  39. Their awful yells could have been heard for miles.

  40. With terrible yells they surged after the Seneca and like a shrieking band of fiends hurried rapidly through the moonlit forest.

  41. The yells of the rebels, the running away of teams, the heavy sound of artillery, were enough to 'frighten the souls of fearful adversaries.

  42. The yells and shrieks of the wounded were enough to strike terror to the souls of the strongest, during the whole time of this great battle of blood and death.

  43. So on they came like a line of mad animals, sending forth such unearthly yells as to induce the belief that all the fiends of the infernal regions had been turned loose at once and led on by old Beelzebub himself.

  44. The shouts of the commanders giving their orders, the yells of the soldiers on both sides, as well as the groans of the wounded and dying, could be distinctly heard in every direction.

  45. Even as he was hesitating, and more than half inclined to force the issue, there broke out such ear-piercing yells as neither of the two boys had ever heard before.

  46. The yells were still rising discordantly behind them, when Dick began to notice a decided change to their intonation.

  47. Somehow we did not seem to be pursued, and, wondering at that, I looked over my shoulder, hearing the yells of the savages growing fainter.

  48. They vanished from our sight around a bend in the stream, but for a long time we could hear the sound of distant yells when the wind turned that way.

  49. Before Roger could frame any sort of a reply they heard a series of yells from a little distance, followed by a shot.

  50. From a point still more remote there came again those yells of baffled rage to tell that the skillful Mayhew must still be eluding his pursuers.

  51. No discordant yells from savage throats arose to thrill them.

  52. This last in a different tone, but both yells were of a most savage, highly-pitched nature.

  53. We could hear the cracking of pistols, the shouts of our brave fellows, the yells of the Arabs, and our hearts were there; but we felt that the major was right.

  54. As we neared the village, we heard yells behind us.

  55. Just as the cavalry reached the tents, we saw two great masses of horsemen appear from behind the sand-hills on either flank, and with loud yells ride down upon them.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.