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How to use yak in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun, verb

Yak means an ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane. Example: “She blacklisted me from her dorm party since I yakked on her couch last time.”

Examples of yak by meaning

nounAn ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like...

  • Utilization efficiency of dietary protein in the yak differs with diet composition and feeding level, age, sex, body condition score, and animal production level (e.g., growth, lactation).2008, Scott R. R. Haskell, Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminant, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 619
  • Attempts are now being made, by selection, to create a new breed of yak (the Datong yak) from such crosses.2004, Wilson G. Pond, Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print), CRC Press, →ISBN, page 899

verbTo talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.

  • And in the last few days Clair's boundless capacity to yak about herself while Melissa listened had turned Chip against her, too.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

verbTo vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.

  • She'll feel better when she yaks.1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Glenn Guglia (Matthew Glave)

nounA talk, particular an informal talk; chattering; gossip.

  • All this yak is bending my ear.1962, Ian Fleming, chapter 9, in The Spy Who Loved Me
  • The sudden head-down butt jabbed into someone’s face, is a highly effective way of putting a stop to his yack.1983, Nicolas Freeling, The Back of the North Wind, →ISBN

nounA laugh.

  • And, nine chances out of ten, not a yak in the lot.1951, Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds, Cartoonist

nounCognac.

  • Sit back, sip yak with a next piff yat.2018 November 30, “Bits” (track 10), in Original Sounds, performed by Bru-C and Window Kid

nounA yakuza member.

  • Yakuza, or Yaks as they are popularly known, Japan's large and tightly organized crime and illicit drug corporations.2007, Merrill Singer, Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drugs and Social Inequality, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 191
  • These days yaks make most of their money through securities fraud.2015 September 9, yakthrow, “My neighborhood Yak”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2026
  • Yaks aren't gonna be a problem around here?2023, Matthew A. Knorpp, The Killer Who Lost His Mind, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 191

More sentences with yak

  • She blacklisted me from her dorm party since I yakked on her couch last time.From the entry blacklist
  • I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off.From the entry yak shaving
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:yak shaving.From the entry yak shaving
  • Our students are using Internet shorthand or chatspeak in their online yakking in chat rooms and e-mails.2002, Ronald A. Berk, Humor as an instructional defibrillator: evidence-based techniques in teaching and assessment, Stylus, page 140. From the entry chatspeak
  • I enjoy the newsgroup, the mailing lists, the email corro, and yakking on ICQ with these people.1998 April 21, Dave Locke, “ATH: The Case of the Missing Life”, in alt.tv.homicide (Usenet). From the entry corro
  • A yak was killed, the leather boiled till soft then fitted to our chests and left to harden in the sun.2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, Picador, page 87. From the entry cuirbouly
  • Our path across the trackless Changtang was littered with the impressive skulls and horns of wild yaks slaughtered by the modern-day poachers of Tibet.2002, Michel Peissel, Tibet: The Secret Continent, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33. From the entry Changtang
  • But yaks are not found in Turkey, only in Afghanistan and Pakistan and so these fine people were rendered yakless in their new home.1989, Hotel & Catering Review, volume 19, page 42. From the entry yakless
  • According to the Bhāșyakāra he is supposed to resip the water with 'satyena tvā' etc. and touch his navel part with 'amo asi' etc.1984, Jagannātha Dīkṣita Cipol̲aṇakara, H. G. Ranade, Brahmatva-mañjarī, page 13. From the entry resip
  • The livelihoods of the people in Naro revolve largely around yak herding, production of dairy products such as cheese and butter, and collection of high-altitude medicinal plants like cordyceps.n.d., “Naro Gewog”, in Dzongkhag Administration Thimphu, Bhutan, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2026. From the entry Naro
  • The people of Soe Gewog depend largely on yak herding, dairy production, and collection of medicinal plants, particularly cordyceps (Yartsa Gunbu), which is a key source of cash income.n.d., “Soe Gewog”, in Dzongkhag Administration Thimphu, Bhutan, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2025. From the entry soe
  • Hemmed in by the circle of Soviet executioners, the yaks cried out in terror and agony as lead hellstorms of 7.62mm lead marched along their hides.1990, Dan Schmidt, Red Firestorm (Eagle Force #4), Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry hellstorm
  • In New Indo-Aryan currency the tadbhava and semitatsama forms of yakṣa and yakṣiṉī have come to mean demon and demoness, goblin or malevolent spirits of some kind.1972, Jacob Ensink, Peter Gaeffke, editors, India Maior: Congratulatory Volume Presented to J. Gonda, page 194. From the entry semi-tatsama
  • He says he’s got nothing against the Rose d’Or, it’s just that since he did the Himalayas he finds the Alps a bit too small and there aren’t enough yaks.2005 May 23, Ronald Wolfe, “Programme for change – Rose d’Or awards”, in The Stage. From the entry yakless

Meaning of yak

  1. noun An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
  2. verb To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
  3. verb To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.

Full definition of yak

Questions about yak in a sentence

How do you use yak in a sentence?
Yak is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She blacklisted me from her dorm party since I yakked on her couch last time.”
What is a short sentence with yak?
“She'll feel better when she yaks.”
What does yak mean?
Yak means an ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.

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