How to Use holler in a Sentence
- She hollered across the street, “Did you hear the news?”.
- He was hollering across the fields to his workers.
- They were screaming and hollering at each other all night.
- Someone was hollering my name.
- People always holler about tax increases.
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Sit in a deck chair and hoot and holler at skiers going by.
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Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
18 Mar. 2026
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There are a few hoots and hollers as the others agree or protest.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
21 Oct. 2025
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Pitman knocked at the open door and hollered the name on his list.
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Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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The man hollered at them through his front door, then called the police.
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Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
8 Aug. 2019
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The Lakers dunked, hollered and won.
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Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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People would hoot and holler at her and sometimes throw things.
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Detroit Free Press Staff,
Detroit Free Press,
5 Oct. 2021
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Men on horseback whooped and hollered while dogs scampered back and forth.
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Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Oct. 2019
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The next day, the girl hollered in pain and pointed at her back, her mother stated.
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Jake Allen,
The Indianapolis Star,
1 May 2023
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Root got a strike past Babe, and did those Cub bench jockeys holler and hiss!
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Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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Others stared through the glass, hollering at their friends .
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Myah Taylor,
Dallas News,
30 May 2023
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Fans stood, cheered and hollered, and play was stopped briefly as players hugged on the benches and on the ice.
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John Wawrow,
courant.com,
3 July 2017
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The driver keeps cupping his hands around his mouth, megaphone- style, to holler at groups of girls who walk by.
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Seija Rankin,
EW.com,
10 Sep. 2020
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So, pull your boots on and get ready to hoot and holler while cowboys and cowgirls take off on their best rides.
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Anna Mahan,
Country Living,
10 Sep. 2023
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Then a neighbor hollered at him to go inside and turn on the TV.
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Andy Schatschneider,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
10 Sep. 2017
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Luke was in the stands hollering with the rest of the family.
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Mike Jensen,
Philly.com,
9 Dec. 2017
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Austin slammed his bat on the plate, threw it down and took four steps toward the mound while hollering.
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CBS News,
12 Apr. 2018
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So my husband, ran over to the house to and started hollering for them.
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Southern Living,
3 Aug. 2011
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My husband heard the commotion and hollered at me for yelling at his sister.
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Jeanne Phillips,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Down the way, a bunch of young fellas were hooting and hollering.
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Stephen King,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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Way too many of them, people who could not have been alive, hollered in response, caught up in the moment.
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Trevor Fraser,
orlandosentinel.com,
17 Oct. 2019
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Cobb hollered after the pair, who seemed tickled by all the attention.
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Heather Knight,
SFChronicle.com,
3 Dec. 2019
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Look no further than Kristina for the first player to hoot and holler about… snakes?
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Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
24 Sep. 2025
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Then, last month, whooping and hollering, the bad guys rode into town.
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Nick Hoppe,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Apr. 2018
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Please, holler at your boy, soften my enemies, bribe the devil.
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Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
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McGann seemed doubtful, but some other men whooped and hollered, and that felt great.
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Mike O’Brien,
The New Yorker,
9 Nov. 2023
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By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.
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Annie Joy Williams,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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The town hall crowd received my comments with strong clapping and appreciative hoots and hollers.
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Chicago Tribune,
25 Aug. 2025
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These bites of heaven get a double layer of cheesy goodness that's enough to make a Southern crowd holler.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
3 June 2026
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At the time of Paton and Payton picked Barron, last spring’s first-round selection, folks didn’t whoop and holler.
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Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
21 Apr. 2026
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Both sides of my family have lived in the high mountains and deep hollers of Watauga County for over 150 years.
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Sheri Castle,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
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Their hoots and hollers drowned Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s explanation of how a title defense fell short.
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Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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On fall game days, the football team and marching band parade onto the field to loud cheers and hollers, fresh out of a Friday Night Lights episode.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
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All the segments understand the assignment, aiming primarily to elicit hoots and hollers.
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James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Its rumble barreled over crowds gathered at KSC’s press site drowning out cheers, hollers and the clicking sounds of cameras snapping away pictures of the liftoff.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2026
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The resurgence of the Planet of the Apes franchise has been one of the more surprising success stories of the 21st century, and the fourth film in the reboot series is a hoot and a holler.
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PC Magazine,
7 Nov. 2025
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During his very first talk show appearance onThe Ellen Show that same year, Dane joked about the famous scene and the use of double-stick tape to an audience of screaming women, clearly enjoying the crowd's appreciative mewls and hollers.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Feb. 2026
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Blues developed after the Civil War (1861–65) and was influenced by 19th-century work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, and church music such as spirituals and hymns, as well as the folk and popular music of white Southerners.
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René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
15 May 2026
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