Example Sentences: Words Starting with Y
57 words starting with Y, each with example sentences that show how it is used.
- yachtWould you like to go sailing on my uncle’s yacht?
- yahYah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.
- yakShe blacklisted me from her dorm party since I yakked on her couch last time.
- yamFor quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.
- yangTexas has bluebonnets out the ying yang this time of year.
- yankHe unjammed the rope with a short yank.
- yapYou’re always yapping, I wish you’d shut up.
- yardI need to hedge a yard of yen.
- yarnLeave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.
- yarrowYarrow is one of the aboriginal English plants, and from time immemorial it has been used in incantations and...
- yawnI could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.
- yeThis is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
- yeaHe may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and...
- yeahI was walking down the road, yeah, and you know what I saw, yeah? A dog wearing a dress!
- yearMars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
- yearlyChristmas is a yearly celebration.
- yearnAll I yearn for is a simple life.
- yearningShe had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
- yeastYeast is used to leaven bread, making it rise during baking.
- yellHe yelled directions to the party from the car.
- yellowHe had a yellow laptop in his bag.
- yellowishMetasternum with yellowish-brown pubescence, laterally and close to metacoxae more yellowish.
- yelpThe puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.
- yenI need to hedge a yard of yen.
- yepI'll take that as a yep, then.
- yesYes, you are correct.
- yesterdayToday is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.
- yesteryearFlipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.
- yetI haven't finished yet.
- yewI knew the yew tree was done for when the infection broomed up its branches.
- yieldThis method generally yields better results.
- yinThe yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup.
- yoYo Paulie! How's it going?
- yodelThe sentence "In every ode linger many" can be resegmented to read "I never yodel in Germany".
- yogaShe spaced out the yoga mats as much as she could while leaving room for some walkways.
- yogiGurdjieff connects this type of breathing with yogi breathing.
- yogurt"Superhealth Yogurt" would be a misdescriptive trademark for a yogurt that was very high in fat.
- yokeRanchers were yoked together with farmers on the issue.
- yolkTo make meringue, you have to separate the white from the yolk.
- yonHe went to climb yon hill.
- yonderWhose doublewide is that over yonder?
- yoreThis word comes from the days of yore.
- youBoth of you should get ready now.
- youngCome skydiving with us. Come on, you're only young once!
- youngestI may be the youngest in my family but I still resent being referred to as the baby.
- youngsterThe victim was a youngster, both of whose eyes were missing.
- yourLet’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.
- yoursIf this edit is mine, the other must be yours.
- yourselfBe careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.
- yourselvesYou yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?
- yousWhat are yous up to tonight?
- youthHer youth and beauty attracted him to her.
- youthfulThe old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.
- yuanThey were in issues of five yuan (a Chinese dollar, equal at this time to a little less than one American...
- yuckYuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
- yummyLook at that yummy cake! I would eat that all up!
- yupOne was either a Yup or a Nope, depending upon his answer to that age-old question, "Gotcher deer yet?" I, of...
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Example sentences adapted from Wiktionary, from the entry of each word and the entries the sentences come from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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