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• We won the cup, we won the cup, ee aye addio, we won the cup!From the entry ee aye addio
• Helmsman: "Rudder amidships aye! Rudder now amidships."From the entry very well
• Aye, matey, it's a darty job, but me throat got plenty parched.2020, M. Brooke McCullough, J. E. Boydston, Canarytown City of Grief. From the entry darty
• 'I know I spoke chuff, aye, but – she wouldn't listen.2016, Andrew Prentice, Jonathan Weil, Devil's Blood. From the entry chuff
• Such is my lack of trust that my immediate thought is aye, aye who’s lost out?2015 May 23, Martin Toop, “Audits needed”, in Waikato Times, Hamilton, Waikato, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B6. From the entry aye aye
• Make it fast, people!” There was a rapid chorus of “Aye aye, Sir!” from the trainees.2014, Peter Grant, “Rolla System – June 2848 GSC”, in Adapt and Overcome (The Maxwell Saga; 3), Fynbos Press, →ISBN, page 272. From the entry aye aye, sir
• If offered the job, he would say “Aye, aye, I guess,” but he won’t be campaigning.1994 June 18, John Weyler, “Rancho Cucamonga’s Flannery Approaches Job with a Passion”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry aye, aye
• "Aye," Scott said, "and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon."1984, Vonda N. McIntyre, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, page 108. From the entry if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon
• Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose.1964, A Hard Day's Night, spoken by Grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell). From the entry hooter
• "Aye," said John Hampden quickly, "but he is secret and apart.1952, Lorna Doone Beers, The Book of Hugh Flower. From the entry songsome
• Aye, you could sell your kit and caboodle, and really see New Orleans!1951, Holling Clancy Holling, Minn of the Mississippi, published 1979, page 65. From the entry kit and caboodle
• Aye, this be an unkid palace at the turn o' the world.1934, The Sussex County Magazine, volume 8, page 304. From the entry unkid
• He came back the next day and the next, but aye he got the same answer.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry black
• Aye, the Chicopee, a fine-un, she were.2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine, United States…. From the entry fleet
• "Oh aye!" his face lit up with a smile.1982, Edward Chisnall, Bell in the Tree: The Glasgow story. From the entry afore
• “Aye, aye, sir.” Can’t you even introduce me?1981 March, James Webb, chapter 0915, in A Sense of Honor, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published April 1982, →ISBN, part 4 (Sunday…. From the entry aye, aye, sir
• Aye, here's a ship of doughty build and strong: But not for lads like you to sail to port.1937, Edward Mellor Jameson, Charterhouse. From the entry doughty
• “He was aye rimin’,” said Miss Newbigging, “about this bonny countryside and the dacent folk that bode in it.”1936 July, John Buchan, “Sanctuary”, in The Island of Sheep, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, part II (Laverlaw), pages 152–153. From the entry rhyme
• She moved proudly to the incessant music of a paean, aye! of a paean that was always crescendo.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry paean
• Aye! know that you would be weeping for wonder before you had seen a tithe of these gauds.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry gaud
• The episode quickly entered trading floor legend, and traders and brokers took to hollering "aye aye shepherd's pie" and "get in the bath!".2017, Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch, The Fix (page 7). From the entry aye aye shepherd's pie
• 'Aye, the plague of last summer.2016, David Mark, Dead Pretty, Hachette UK, page 10. From the entry loveliness
• Aye, and set the sea-anchor droguing!2015, Ralph Demers, Sand Dollars, page xiii. From the entry drogue
• Mac McAdams might not've added all those "ayes," but he spoke in such a melodious dialect that "aye" kind of came out understood.2005, George Singleton, Novel. From the entry not've
• Even when given an order he’d rather not receive, he said, “Aye, aye, Sir,” and carried it out to the best of his ability.1993, W. E. B. Griffin [pseudonym; William Edmund Butterworth III], chapter V, in Close Combat (The Corps; VI), New York, N.Y.: G. P.…. From the entry aye, aye, sir
• “Aye aye, sir,” said Weems gloomily.1952, The Saturday Evening Post, page 134. From the entry prehumous
• “Aye, well, ye were a-looking as malagrugrous as me old master when he were a-reaching for his leather, so I thought I’d best talk soft,” Will said.2012 April, Amanda Scott, Highland Lover, Forever, page 170. From the entry malagrugrous
• Ye had to watch no to step in mud or a puddle or else in jobby, dogs were aye doing jobbies, or else ye watched for broken glass.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 85. From the entry jobbie
• Aye, upon the horizon was Magas, Berenike Alpha’s son, the young man whom Ptolemy Soter had sent as Strategos, or Governor, to Kyrene thirty years before.2006, Duncan Sprott, “Mud Bricks”, in Daughter of the Crocodile (Ptolemies Quartet; 2), London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, part 1…. From the entry Kyrene
• Still, I've known most things worth knowing, seen most things worth seeing, aye, and had most things worth having though you'll not believe that, my lass."1916, Littell's Living Age, volume 289. From the entry tedisome
• Aye, if he wis comin' in his fite claes, bodybulk, I doot ye wid be a' in a binner, as weel's the horses. . . .1915, H. Beaton, Benachie, pages 50, 163. From the entry binner
• Caldwell’s effects, to ascertain if there is any clew to a motive either for suicide or murder—sift the thing to the bottom.” “Aye, aye, sir!” responded Mr.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Wreck of the ‘Lady Alice’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt…. From the entry aye aye, sir
• The horse was the grey stallion he aye rode, the very beast he had ridden for many a wager with the wild lads of the Cross Keys.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry broke
• 'It's Joan o' the Croft,' was aye her owercome, and she would threep that they were to be cried in kirk on the first Sabbath of May.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry threep

Meaning of aye

1. adverb Ever, always.
2. interjection Yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.
3. interjection A word used to acknowledge a command from a superior, usually preceded by a verbatim repeat-back.

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Questions about aye in a sentence

How do you use aye in a sentence?

Aye is used as an adverb, interjection and verb. For example: “The ayes have it.”

What is a short sentence with aye?

“The ayes have it.”

What does aye mean?

Aye means ever, always.