yay

Example Sentences

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“There’s this song they were playing at the stadium in the seventh inning — I think it goes, ‘Oh yay, Blue Jays,’ something like that,” Rojas said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

I hadn't thought about it till it came out in the press, so yay, yay for me.

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

"I've been watching the trailer and going yay she's here," Cleo told the BBC.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2023

Roy runs into Phoebe’s teacher — yay, Phoebe, genuinely and always — and she says he seemed “stuck” the last time they spoke, which evidently serves to immediately unstick him.

From New York Times • May 17, 2023

The yay spoke not a word, but pointed down into the valley and led the way thither.

From The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 by Matthews, Washington