What's the difference between yow and yowl?

Yow


Definition:

  • (pron.) You.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pronounced "oll-yow", Olhão is the Algarve's largest fishing port.

Yowl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.
  • (n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was the frontman, but she swiftly became the band's most celebrated member, exuding a nonchalant, cigarette-smoking cool onstage, her calm, measured voice the perfect foil to Francis's yowling and screaming: in the 2006 Pixies documentary, loudquietloud , Deal is pursued by her own coterie of fans, who hyperventilate when they meet her and hold up signs during gigs proclaiming her to be God.
  • (2) Repeating the old line about the crisis starting in the US mortgage market gets another yowl of contempt.
  • (3) A small group of worshippers sat under an ancient bodhi tree, their chanting mingling with the yowl of peacocks and the swish of a brush sweeping leaves from the sandy ground.
  • (4) Whatever Trump appeared to promise, and whatever he may yowl into Twitter’s great maw, he doesn’t appear to have anyone around him who is able to translate his instincts into something that may one day resemble a legislative program.
  • (5) Every yelp and yowl shows a 50p rise in top tax hits the right spot.
  • (6) We tiptoed around, spoke in hushed tones and jumped on the cats every time they yowled.

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