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Examples
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Either that, or that kid only answers questions using the proverbial "yarp" and "narp".
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It was time for someone, Whitman-like, to burst out with a barbaric yarp, and Kerouac did it.
Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009
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If he's Hodor, it'll be just a rehash of his role in Hot Fuzz instead of yarp and narp he'll be saying Hodor.
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It was time for someone, Whitman-like, to burst out with a barbaric yarp, and Kerouac did it.
Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009
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As for Rory on IMDb, yarp, that's clearly a fan who jumped the gun and submitted his name and without noting it as "Rumored".
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He was a dead weight that sagged lower and lower, until I was forced to jerk him up under my arm again, whereupon he would protest with a vigorous yarp.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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The gull at being thus addressed opened one eye and gave a short, harsh yarp, which may have been repudiation or agreement.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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I said that would be fine, and Alecko gave a yarp of agreement.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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Above our heads, on the rack, the finches sang in their cages, the Magenpies chucked and hammered with their beaks, and Alecko gave a mournful yarp at intervals.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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From beneath the cloth Alecko gave a long, menacing yarp; whether in dismay at losing his victims or protest at the noise, it was difficult to say.
My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956
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