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How to use bye in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, adjective, interjection

Bye means the position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team. Example: “Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.”

Examples of bye by meaning

nounThe position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances...

  • Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
  • The Patriots were in the unique situation of having to play 16 straight games, then have their bye in week 17, whether they needed it or not.2020, Jerry Thornton, From Darkness to Dynasty

nounAn unspecified way or place.

  • There's a friend of yours up bye that would be blithe to see you—up the rig from the auld aik on the road to the Greenshiel.1927, John Buchan, Witch Wood

adjectiveSecondary; supplementary.

  • It is the custom in some provinces to pay only according to the basic crops produced, but in others the share is calculated out of the total produce of the farm, both bye and main products.2018, Victor D Lippit, Revival: Land Reform and Economic Development in China (1975), page 54

interjectionAn exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.

  • I only have eyes for my boo.” “Girl, bye.2015, Amir Abrams, Diva Rules, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 151
  • Her jeans don't even got the loops for her damn belt LMFAO bye 😭2021 February 18, @mi55fatima, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023
  • "i wish to get back a couple of katycats that left my side" bye did she really say this..its so sad i love her sm 😢😔2021 December 20, @kplightning, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023

More sentences with bye

  • Girl bye last time I checked you was baeless, soooo it's helping you how?2017, Shanny Samuels, What Lies Ahead?, page 26. From the entry baeless
  • He stopped at a lay bye somewhere along the way for a rest and a drink.2010, Nsununguli Mbo, A Crisis of the Heart, page 145. From the entry lay bye
  • By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma. From the entry belong
  • Tay Tay bye bye, unless she loses her PJs.2026 March 2, “The greenest flags: virtue signals that help you find love – from patchwork clothes to car sharing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry PJ
  • Another bye round, another dose of Thursday night footy and that means you have to get your tips in early.2016 June 29, “AFL tipping 2016: round 15 Expert tips from Herald Sun”, in Herald Sun. From the entry tip
  • Rockabye, rocklings, roc, roc, roc a bye.1969, Madeleine L’Engle, “The Roc”, in Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, →LCCN…. From the entry spiderlet
  • Bye, Bye, I'll see you in the funny papers.1915 January 13, “The ‘fish’ and ‘whick’: Had a little conversation about the school work”, in W[illiam] Y[oast] Morgan, editor, The…. From the entry see you in the funny papers
  • A bimpert is justah wuffless bye.2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022. From the entry wuffless
  • They just say 'too bad, so sad, bye bye.' And it is too bad, cause maybe they weren't being jerks or we could solve the problem easily.1999, Richard Alan Goodman, Modern organizations and emerging conundrums, page 172. From the entry too bad, so sad

Meaning of bye

  1. noun The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
  2. noun An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
  3. noun A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.

Full definition of bye

Questions about bye in a sentence

How do you use bye in a sentence?
Bye is used as a noun, adjective and interjection. For example: “Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.”
What is a short sentence with bye?
“A bimpert is justah wuffless bye.”
What does bye mean?
Bye means the position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bye (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes 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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