yuck

Example Sentences

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New England 27, Seattle 24, ugh, yuck, sigh.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

"It didn't tickle. But when it happened it didn't hurt anywhere near as much as pushing them back and getting them wired together to make the trip home. That was yuck... painful."

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

Rather than positioning foods like tongue and pigs' ears as familiar and comforting, a willingness to embrace the yuck factor became a sign of adventurousness, even masculinity.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2024

A component of Paxlovid activates one of the tongue’s bitter taste receptors even at low levels, which may draw out the yuck factor, the team reports this month in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 22, 2023

The navigator sits on a leaky barrel of yuck that was once full of food, but its stench testifies to the fact that the foodstuffs have decayed into something other.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman