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How to use yah in a sentence

10 example sentences · adverb, interjection, noun

Yah means yes. Example: “Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.”

Examples of yah by meaning

adverbYes.

  • Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.

More sentences with yah

  • I don't care about your stupid party anyway, so yah boo to you.From the entry yah boo
  • “Yah, I sign already,” my mother replied.1999, Alfian Sa'at, Corridor, Singapore: SNP Editions, →OCLC, page 136. From the entry already
  • The sneers about my gap yah.2022, Nicole Kennedy, After Paris. From the entry gap yah
  • Yah Cap'n Obvious, ya freakin' think?!?!?!?2019 February 13, Mitchell Holman, quoting Yak, “Re: California Gov. Gavin Newsom abandoning plan for high-speed train from Los Angeles to…. From the entry Cap'n Obvious
  • Gee, so lau yah man ANZ!2011, dintigger…. From the entry lau yah
  • "Ya mean, yah ain't no boogy?1986, LiNQ. - Volumes 14-15, page 50. From the entry boogy
  • I'd gone away without them on my gap yah but being in the Caribbean alone was fun, and people there were friendly and made me feel safe.2020, Grace Campbell, Amazing Disgrace: A Book About "Shame". From the entry gap yah
  • Therefore, at least the outstanding terms. such as ʿumrân, ʿaṣabîyah, badâwah, were preserved in the translation by rather artificial loan renderings (“civilization,” “group spirit, “desert life or attitude”).2005, Ibn Khaldûn, translated by Franz Rosenthal, edited by N. J. Dawood, here Bruce B. Lawrence, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to…. From the entry loan rendering
  • Nosir, nuh-nosir, I just, uh, I was just follerin’ along to see maybe I could tap yah for a couple cents tuh get some chick’n noodle soup.1975, Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories, London; Sydney: Pan Books, published 1978, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry chick'n

Meaning of yah

  1. adverb Yes.
  2. interjection An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.
  3. noun An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.

Full definition of yah

Questions about yah in a sentence

How do you use yah in a sentence?
Yah is used as an adverb, interjection and noun. For example: “Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.”
What is a short sentence with yah?
“"Ya mean, yah ain't no boogy?”
What does yah mean?
Yah means yes.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yah (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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