Sentence examples for Yay from inspiring English sources

'yay' is a valid and commonly used word in written English.
It is an expression of excitement, joy, or approval. It is often used to express happiness or to cheer someone or something on. Example: "Yay! I got accepted into my dream university!" Another example: "Yay! We won the game!".

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Yay

noun

The letter for the y sound in Pitman shorthand.

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The email from Tim Koelma ended with the words "black ops, yay".

Had the campaign-finance law not been passed, I was assured, SB 1062 would not have reached the governor's desk; the politicians who backed it might not even have been elected in the first place.So yay for private funding?

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Yeah! Or as today's schoolchildren would say: yay!

The majority of the initiated in Pats-loving Britain would doubtless scream a resounding "yay".

We'd all jump in the air, clap our hands, and elatedly shout "very good, very good YAY!" I felt like I was in the computer game The Sims.

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Unfortunately, I had been pronouncing the first two letters in each, IJ, as initials: I-J, or (roughly) "ee-yay" in Dutch.

For dessert, track down Café du Monde (11) at 800 Decatur Street (001 504 525 4544; cafedumonde.com) for a café au lait and a beignet (pronounced ben-yay) – a doughnut in icing sugar.

Gotye (pronounced "go-ti-yay"), is the Belgium-born, Australian-based pop magician Wouter (Wally) de Backer.

February 6 2012 February 8 201212 Feb. 6: Gotye (pronounced "go-ti-yay") is the stage name of Wouter (Wally) de Backer, a promising young musician who was born in Belgium and raised in Melbourne.

He goes downstairs and out the door, saying, "Yay-yuh, it's a nice night out to die".

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