yay

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

A final proposal is expected to be put to them and it was a "yay or nay" time, a DUP source told BBC NI.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2024

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

“This year has been the first year people felt like, ‘Oh, yay, now we’re more out of the pandemic,’” Wang said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2023

I've be'n thinkin' that Jim's all the child we've got—" "Wal, yay.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various