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

“The first one she was yay high and then six months later, she grew. We had to readjust all of our dolls.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

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

He did so, and when he reached the bottom he found the yay there awaiting him.

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