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

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

"A black president, yay, and his black wife."

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2022

Another boat song: "Quee yay hanno ha.—Quee yay hanno ha."

From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Hall, Basil