How to use holler in a sentence

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• He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.From the entry capitulate
• Pay no heed to what she hollers — she's a ding-a-ling!From the entry ding-a-ling
• I could hear some protestors hollering, but I wasn't close enough to make out what was happening. What were they carrying on about?From the entry carry on
• “I will holler at her in the morning and give her a talking to.2015, “Yoshe”, in Crazy in Love 2. From the entry no tea, no shade
• News that some sit-out units would be joining the Patriots drew some more whooping and hollering.2014, Glen Tate, 299 Days: The War. From the entry sit-out
• Razor's mother hollered and spread her body atop her son's shiny death box.2011, Amaleka McCall, Hard Candy. From the entry deathbox
• While she might have been accused of being a hollaback girl, she ain't from the holler.2007, Appalachian Journal - Volume 35, page 24. From the entry hollaback girl
• Mama Shirley was at the foot of the stairs hollering “Halt, you nasty, thieving Boogen!”1997, Shirley Beamer, A Face in the Window, Morris Publishing, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry boogen
• Yes, three strikes right across the plate, and as I hollered "Honey, please wait" she was gone.1996, Lyle Lovett, “Her First Mistake”, in The Road to Ensenada. From the entry strike
• Bo was about played out and I hollered up for that Hutchens to come help me.1968, Charles Portis, True Grit. From the entry played out
• It's alright to holler copper on a guy—but this guy was her friend.1927, Drew Ryan, Angel's Flight, New York: Boni and Silverlight, page 21. From the entry holler copper
• Why are you hollering at him?” “I’ve watched your father go out and kill people for twenty years.2019, Don Bourassa, Dee Boer US Marshal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN. From the entry Christmas's tree
• “Hey, sweetmeat, where you been?” Farrengalli hollered.2010, Scott Nicholson, The Gorge. From the entry sweetmeat
• "Jiminy Crickets, what's all the racket about," he hollered.2004, Bonnie Bedi Siegrist, Little Farm Down the Lane. From the entry jiminy crickets
• Up and down them hills and hollers and out acrosst that Injun country, like the devil was after 'em.2003, September Black, Run Naked in the Wind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry acrosst
• "Smell ya later!" he hollered over his shoulder.1996, Sherry Shahan, Telephone Tag (A Yearling Book), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry smell ya later
• I hollered and cried, cursed, rocked the boat.1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter XXV, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC. From the entry no soap
• All off for a buster, armstrong, hollering down the street.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry buster
• Let's kyoodle, whoop, and holler for these miliion-dollar rains!1915, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Isaac Kaufman Funk, William Seaver Woods, The Literary Digest - Volume 51, page 33. From the entry kyoodle
• This is no Texas feet shampetter,’ says I, ‘where you eat chili-concarne-con-huevos and then holler “Whoopee!” across the plaza.1907, O. Henry, Heart of the West, Seats of the Haughty. From the entry haberdash
• The episode quickly entered trading floor legend, and traders and brokers took to hollering "aye aye shepherd's pie" and "get in the bath!".2017, Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch, The Fix (page 7). From the entry aye aye shepherd's pie
• The boom-boom bass out in the truck bay wasn't quite loud enough to drown out the whoops and the hollers of the ladies.2015, Kate Meader, Flirting with Fire, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry boom-boom
• “Cheese and rice!” he hollered once more before clapping a hand over his mouth and freezing in place as his toe throbbed.2008, Karen Neches, chapter four, in Earthly Pleasures: a novel, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry cheese and rice
• Buses overflowing with Nigériens holler good wishes, thumbs up, as I drive by, and no one peeps when I almost run over a goat.2005 June 29, Natasha Burley, “Meanwhile: Africa, viewed from an '82 Toyota”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Nigérien
• To get them to obey a command, you used the jerk-line, and you'd holler "Gee" or "Haw," different syllables so they wouldn't get mixed up.1983, Anne Foley Scheuring, Tillers, An Oral History of Family Farms in California, page 39. From the entry gee string
• I would open my mouth, and screams, shouts and field hollers would tear out my tongue in their rush to be free.1976, Maya Angelou, chapter 3, in Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry like Christmas, New York: Bantam, published 1977, page 28. From the entry field holler
• His sense of place, or status, within the superstructure of American society had changed radically since the days of the field holler.1963, Amiri Baraka, chapter 7, in Blues People: Negro Music in White America, New York: Morrow, page 87. From the entry field holler
• Get yore handkerchief ready, an' run out an' cram it into his kisser an' choke th' —— if he starts in to holler.1918, Ralph Selwood Kendall, Benton of the Royal Mounted, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 121. From the entry kisser
• Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 166. From the entry jiffy
• I guess there ain't nothin' on airth he loves better 'n that holler piece o' wood, and the toons that's inside o' it.1901, Henry van Dyke, The Ruling Passion. From the entry airth
• The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies.2021 December 26, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in…. From the entry get a room
• It was hard to get two dollars out of either of them, and whatever chump change they gave Mere'maw they expected her to squeeze it until it hollered.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry chump change
• Then another series of hollered orders, a heave on the wheel, and the brig did a circuit of the flagship's bow, perilously close to the long bowsprit.2004, Joan Druett, chapter 6, in A Watery Grave (Wiki Coffin Adventure; 1), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Minotaur, →ISBN; republished as A…. From the entry haul
• At this point Johnny changes tactics and hollers, "I know you are, but what am I?" and the voice echoes, "I know you are, but what am I?"2003, Mark E. Jones, Echoes of Heaven, page 7. From the entry I know you are but what am I
• The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.1991, Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920, University Press of New England, published 2001, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry craft
• M., “Phil ‘n’ Irene,” one delicious day months ago when we looked over the fence and were assaulted by miasmic wafts of smoke and a happy holler from Mr.1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 111. From the entry miasmic

Meaning of holler

1. noun A yell, shout.
2. noun Any communication to get somebody's attention.
3. noun A field holler.

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Questions about holler in a sentence

How do you use holler in a sentence?

Holler is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I heard a holler from over the fence.”

What is a short sentence with holler?

““Hey, sweetmeat, where you been?” Farrengalli hollered.”

What does holler mean?

Holler means a yell, shout.