Example sentences for: holler

How can you use “holler” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hollings paints Inglis' obsession with principles as a handicap, mocking his refusal to accept home-district goodies: "What have you done for your district for six years other than whine and complain and holler 'pork'?"

  • Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).

  • Frontier Americana Lickskillet, Ohio and Tennessee Gnaw Bone, Indiana Turkey Scratch, Arkansas Dunmovin, California Rawhide, Mississippi Cut and Shoot, Texas Hoot and Holler Crossing, Texas Horse Thief, Arizona Jackass Flats, Nevada Hell and Gone Creek, Oklahoma

  • When he gets to the nick he will then holler for a brief of an entirely different kind, namely his lawyer--a solicitor; and if the case goes as far as court, the brief will very likely have engaged a mouthpiece --in Britain a barrister, in the USA a trial lawyer--to speak for him.

  • She can command a full, chesty holler when she needs to, but in quiet passages she tends to produce a gentle haze of breath around each focused note.


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