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How to use hello in a sentence

40 example sentences · interjection, noun, verb

Hello means a greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence. Example: “Hello? How may I help you?”

Examples of hello by meaning

interjectionA greeting used when answering the telephone.

  • Hello? How may I help you?

interjectionA call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening, or if a telephone conversation may have been...

  • Hello? Is anyone there?

interjectionUsed sarcastically to imply that the person addressed has done something the speaker considers to be foolish, or missed...

  • You just tried to start your car with your cell phone. Hello?

interjectionAn expression of puzzlement or discovery.

  • Hello! What’s going on here?

noun"Hello!" or an equivalent greeting.

  • They gave each other a quick hello when they met, and went back on their merry ways.
  • In many new buildings, though, neighbors are venturing beyond tight-lipped hellos at the mailbox.2007 April 29, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...

verbTo greet (someone) with "hello".

  • She then helloes me back.2012, Mark Dolan, Do You Mind if I Put My Hand on it?: Journeys into the Worlds of the Weird, HarperCollins, →ISBN
  • I had to traipse around somewhat, helloing people and being helloed, before I spotted my mother and my father, sharing shade and a spread blanket with Pete and Marie Reese and Toussaint Rennie near the back of the park.2013, Ivan Doig, English Creek, page 139

More sentences with hello

  • If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.From the entry bite
  • Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourself this morning?From the entry ourself
  • Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?From the entry ourselves
  • Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?From the entry sarnie
  • Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.From the entry patient
  • Hello, I’m just returning your call. What did you want to talk about?From the entry return
  • Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?From the entry comrade
  • They can’t’ve seen us yet or they would have come over to say hello.From the entry can't've
  • I knew he must've woke up sucking a lemon when he didn't even say hello.From the entry suck a lemon
  • Hello love, how can I help you?From the entry love
  • Hello Mrs Miggins. How are we feeling this morning? Oh, what's that bottle of tablets under our chair? Is that ours?From the entry ours
  • Hello Mrs Miggins. How are we feeling this morning?From the entry we
  • Oh, hello there, Bob, how are you doing?From the entry there
  • Hello, matey, just back from the pub?From the entry matey
  • Hello, operator — I'd like to make a collect call.From the entry collect call
  • Hello, Reddit! Mind helping me with this Sudoku problem?From the entry reddit
  • I said hello, but she walked on by.From the entry walk on by
  • Li’er said hello to his father.From the entry -er
  • Hello ducks, how are you today?From the entry ducks
  • Hello, yes, this is Jasper's wife, but no, I'm sorry, honey, you can't speak with Jasper: he's been with the Lord for some time now.From the entry with the Lord
  • "Bye-bye FAANG, hello MAMAA," the "Mad Money" host said on Thursday's show.2021 October 29, Kevin Stankiewicz, quoting Jim Cramer, “'Bye-bye FAANG, hello MAMAA' — Cramer reveals a new acronym after Facebook's name…. From the entry MAMAA
  • Say hello to a phalanx of fellows whose phallophilia lies fallow on the hollow feather pillow.2020, Dominic Pettman, The Humid Condition, Punctum Books, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry phallophilia
  • And I don't mean scientists not saying hello to each other at conferences.2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry psychosurgery
  • When I smiled and said hello to him, Husayn looked at me from fifty miles away.2011, Chyna Chyna, FAM: Rolling in a London Girl Gang. From the entry crep
  • Some bandkids got on the bus and I waved hello to them.2010, Adam Levin, “Signify”, in The Instructions, San Francisco, Calif.: McSweeney’s Rectangulars, →ISBN, page 311. From the entry bandkid
  • The blog engine has become the “hello world” of today’s programming book.2009, Emad Ibrahim, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer™), Indianapolis…. From the entry hello world
  • Before she could even mutter a hello the boy left to join his friends.2008, My Family, http://www.deliverancenow.info/WordsDance/Stories/Archive/Challenge_16.htm. From the entry twithought
  • Hello, keed!” Bob put his hand over his ear to shut out the sound.2008, Josefina Niggli, Mexican Village and Other Works, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 512. From the entry keed
  • Simple calculations and currency conversions have become the “hello world” of web service examples.2007, Dierk König with Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, and Jon Skeet, Groovy in Action, New York, N.Y.: Manning Publications…. From the entry hello world
  • Hello, I’m Youngran Lee, the manhwaga who is happiest when writing and drawing.2006 September 5, Youngran Lee, Lie to Me (Manhwa Novella Collection), volume 1, Netcomics, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry manhwaga
  • I didn't get a hello, a how you doing, a what's up, or what's happening.2004, Freddy Cee, Post-9/11, African American Style: Laughter, Still Da Best Medicine, page 35. From the entry nigga nod
  • "Hello, the town!" No answer but the bells, the tunesome insects, and that odd wooden clunking.2001, Robert Silverberg, Legends: Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy. From the entry tunesome

Meaning of hello

  1. interjection A greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.
  2. interjection A greeting used when answering the telephone.
  3. interjection A call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening, or if a telephone conversation may have been disconnected.

Full definition of hello

Questions about hello in a sentence

How do you use hello in a sentence?
Hello is used as an interjection, noun and verb. For example: “Hello? How may I help you?”
What is a short sentence with hello?
“Hello? Is anyone there?”
What does hello mean?
Hello means a greeting (salutation) said when meeting someone or acknowledging someone’s arrival or presence.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hello (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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