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How to use yap in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Yap means the high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar. Example: “You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.”

Examples of yap by meaning

nounCasual talk; chatter.

  • Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59
  • Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 190

verbTo talk, especially excessively; to chatter.

  • You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.

verbTo rob or steal from (someone).

  • Yap that fool!2000, M.O.P., Ante Up

More sentences with yap

  • I find miniature dogs annoying; they seem to yap more than full-size dogs.From the entry miniature
  • My neighbour sooled her bull mastiff onto my chihuahua, because she was sick of its yapping and wanted it to meet its demise.From the entry sool
  • "Haad yeor gob, ye lippy yap!"From the entry haad
  • Hey man, I'm lowk too geeked to reply with formatting and everything so I'm just gonna give it to you as one big yap paragraph.From the entry lowk
  • And rather a latration of yaps and yowls as a harum-scarum of dogs swept past.2001, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys. From the entry latration
  • She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail.1921, Chamber's Journal. From the entry yarr
  • At the end of the day, yapping helps build community.2024 August 12, Liv Frey, “One yappuccino, please”, in The Michigan Daily, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2024. From the entry yappuccino
  • I’ll take my yappuccino with extra yap, please.2024 August 12, Liv Frey, “One yappuccino, please”, in The Michigan Daily, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2024. From the entry yappuccino
  • Shut your yap and open your ears, yammermouth!2012, John C. Wright, The Hermetic Millennia, →ISBN, page 270. From the entry flummoxery
  • Consumer watchpuppies by the basketful start yapping, led by legislators seeing a no-lose position to trumpet at election time.2004, Broadcasting & Cable, volume 132, numbers 45-46, page 38. From the entry watchpuppy
  • Large dog owners see me as an ally in the battle against the “toys” — eentsy, primped and preened, frivolous creatures that tremble and yap.2007 May 5, Mark Derr, “The Little Dog Has His Day”, in New York Times. From the entry eentsy
  • There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines.2007, Frederik Pohl, Platinum Pohl. From the entry dead-pan
  • The truck was going past Wollaton Park and Barry was still yapping about this chick's hairy mott and yet it was only background muffle to Desmond.1978, Pat McGrath, People in the Crowd, page 150. From the entry mott
  • Our next-door neighbors, a retired couple who were home all day and understandably didn’t enjoy the constant soundtrack of canine yapping, were even less happy about this than we were.2009, Michael Schaffer, “Toy Town”, in One Nation Under Dog: Adventures in the New World of Prozac-Popping Puppies, Dog-Park Politics, and…. From the entry untrainability

Meaning of yap

  1. noun The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
  2. noun Casual talk; chatter.
  3. noun The mouth, which produces speech.

Full definition of yap

Questions about yap in a sentence

How do you use yap in a sentence?
Yap is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.”
What is a short sentence with yap?
“Yap that fool!”
What does yap mean?
Yap means the high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yap (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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