- present tense form of bay (3rd person singular).
bays
Example Sentences
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The final tally: 28 yays and 10 nays.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2020
From 0930 in the morning to 1930 at night, the relentless patter of the auctioneer rat-a-tat-tats to the assembled throng against a backdrop of clip clops and yays and neighs.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2014
And thankfully we always had more yays than we predicted and we always had fewer wrenches to the head than we predicted.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2014
The class celebrated with yays and yesses, but Clayton pounded his fist on his desk.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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I know I cannot be with you always, for the yays visit me nightly in my sleep.
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