[ UK /jˈɛl/ ]
[ US /ˈjɛɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate)
    a yell of pain
    a cry of rage
  2. a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
    the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience
VERB
  1. utter or declare in a very loud voice
    You don't have to yell--I can hear you just fine
  2. utter a sudden loud cry
    I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me
    she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle
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How To Use yell In A Sentence

  • Using a bold colour such as yellow is risky. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
  • The Yellow Wallpaper is the masterpiece of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a wellknown American feminist pioneer and writer.
  • Connecticut schools have been fitting yellow intruder alarms next to fire alarms in their corridors and dining halls. Times, Sunday Times
  • Soon the seeds in the inflated seed cases of the yellow rattle will be hard and rattle at a brush.
  • They were pink and yellow and orange, and they reminded Kate of the flowers from a Dr. Seuss book. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
  • Putting Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound is like putting a refinery in Yellowstone. The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved
  • Prissy, looking up, saw her and her mouth opened to yell.
  • Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
  • The forest all along the mountain curve was spotted with dots of red, yellow, purple and gold, trees just beginning to turn with the season.
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