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How to use yo in a sentence

40 example sentences · interjection, pronoun, noun

Yo means a greeting similar to hi. Example: “Yo Paulie! How's it going?”

Examples of yo by meaning

interjectionA greeting similar to hi.

  • Yo Paulie! How's it going?

interjectionAn interjection similar to hey.

  • Yo, check this out!
  • Check this out, yo!

interjectionAn expression of surprise or excitement.

  • Yo, that's crazy, but I don't remember asking.

interjectionEmphatic conclusion to a statement.

  • JESSE: That is messed up, yo.2010, "Kafkaesque" (Breaking Bad TV series, season 3, episode 9)

pronounGeneric third-person singular pronoun (primarily used in place of he and she).

  • Is dat yo mama? What's yo doin' in here??
  • Yo was tuckin' in his shirt!
  • Wha' dey said to yo? Yo looks nervous.

More sentences with yo

  • Yo man, I heard someone had put a green light out on you, so watch your back.From the entry green light
  • Yo bro, my situationship suggested you and I do an Eiffel Tower on her, you down?From the entry Eiffel Tower
  • Yo, Harold! Surf's up! Those cars aren't going to wash themselves!From the entry surf's up
  • You need to slow down, yo. You're starting to look all cracked out.From the entry cracked out
  • Yo fam, wanna head to McDonald's? I'm feeling marved right now.From the entry marved
  • Yo, you seen Bobby? That scro still owes me ten bucks.From the entry scro
  • Yo, I drop rhymes like nobody’s business.From the entry drop
  • Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.From the entry pepperoni
  • Yo, let’s go back to my hizzy.From the entry hizzy
  • Yo, twin, lemme rap at ya.From the entry twin
  • Usage from my 20yo, "I bet he used Chat to write that apology"2024 September 14, @matthew_mullins_, Threads, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2024. From the entry chat
  • You alla sudden gettin’ human with yo’ N-word and now a US Grant.2023, Argent Amos, “Job One”, in California Roll: A Paranormal Journey, Bublish, →ISBN. From the entry y'all
  • Immediately, a presumably male gamer voice said, "Ay yo you're terrible.2023 January 30, Tatiana Louder, “I'm a 'gamer girl' and a model – just one hour of playing Call of Duty with men left me disgusted”, in…. From the entry dogwater
  • He reaches out to me on Instagram like "yo, I mess with you super heavy.2021 July 9, Huey V (quoted), Shirley Ju, “Meet Huey V | Next up out of Milwaukee's Rap Scene”, in Flaunt Magazine, archived from the…. From the entry mess with
  • Break the rules o' da new modz yo and the ban hammer is coming down hard yo.2017, TeamSkullGrammerBot, Reddit. From the entry ain't no bones about it
  • Nay—heaw—so—Tummus; goo theaw an smeawtch Seroh o' Rutchot's iv yo bin so kipper.2014, John Collier, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary. From the entry kipper
  • Don't bile fast but jes' let yo' pot simper along slowsome.2013, Frederick Douglass Opie, Hog and Hominy. From the entry slowsome
  • Row 7: Sl 1, k4, k2tog, yo, k1, yo, SSK, k3, SSK, turn.2011, Karida Collins, Pints and Purls: Portable Projects for the Social Knitter. From the entry ssk
  • I am a 36yo male available for watersports, hardsports, submission, spanking, gangbang only with ladies.2003, marcusderossi, “male available for extreme movies, videos”, in uk.adverts.personals (Usenet). From the entry hardsport
  • "Come heah, son, don't cry-come 'n say howdee to yo' pappy."1998, Eric Walrond, “Stories from Tropic Death”, in Louis J. Parascandola, editor, Winds Can Wake Up the Dead: An Eric Walrond Reader…. From the entry howdee
  • Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway?1989, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, spoken by Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito). From the entry gentrification
  • “You tend to yo business en let de whitefolks tend to deir'n.”1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury. From the entry theirn
  • "When yo' can make a man sit down, yo've got him!"1924, The Fighting Coward. From the entry yo've
  • "Massa Gen'l O'lando Jackson supremely delighted to have yo' fo' his guests."1924, The Fighting Coward. From the entry O'lando
  • How can I believe such things of—of Constance Berkley—of yo' daid mother——"1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige. From the entry daid
  • Sheila – 9yo Blue Cattle Dog x.2025 March 9, Australian Cattle Dog Rescue. From the entry girl
  • Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc.2024 March 11, Kyle Swenson, Amber Ferguson, “A TikToker raised $400K for an unhoused man. Then things got messy.”, in The Washington…. From the entry unc
  • Yo, I got this bad B coming from upsy.2020 March 26, “Chucky”performed by Dezzie. From the entry b
  • “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard.2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry fam
  • "Yo, man, I need to get some money.2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 119. From the entry hammer
  • Yo, it'll give you the feels, y'all, I swear.2015 July 1, Sam Esmail, “eps1.1_ones-and-zer0es.mpeg”, in Mr. Robot, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Cisco. From the entry feels
  • All gurl's good fur—jist To dust an' sweep, an' scold, An' sew on buttons what yo mus't Sewin' on last week.2013, Karen L. Kilcup, Angela Sorby, Over the River and Through the Wood, →ISBN. From the entry gurl

Meaning of yo

  1. interjection A greeting similar to hi.
  2. interjection An interjection similar to hey.
  3. interjection An expression of surprise or excitement.

Full definition of yo

Questions about yo in a sentence

How do you use yo in a sentence?
Yo is used as an interjection, pronoun and noun. For example: “Yo Paulie! How's it going?”
What is a short sentence with yo?
“Check this out, yo!”
What does yo mean?
Yo means a greeting similar to hi.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yo (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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