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How to use yous in a sentence

11 example sentences · pronoun, determiner

Yous means you. Example: “What are yous up to tonight?”

Examples of yous by meaning

pronounYou.

  • What are yous up to tonight?

pronounYou.

  • Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’1909, PG Wodehouse, The Gem Collector
  • ‘Yous will meet us here outside this pub,’ Harry Curniskey said.1938, Patrick Kavanagh, The Green Fool
  • ‘But what I also seen is that youse have never had a real man before, datin' all them boys.1988, Kathy Lette, Girls' Night Out

determinerThe group spoken or written to.

  • What are yous kids doin?
  • "Go and find out who did it, before you come blaming me for it." "It's only youse crowd wot comes makin' a pigsty of the place," said Melons conclusively.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 20

More sentences with yous

  • Checking all the filled out about yous would take some time.From the entry about you
  • Did she go with yous?' Finn pursed her lips in surprise.2011, Alan Warner, The Stars in the Bright Sky, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry miss oneself
  • "Yous gals enjoy yousselves.” And Sarah quickly walks away.2008, Andrew Shankland, Beyond the Grail: 'A Thorn Rose. Surely Not an Irish Lullaby.', →ISBN, page 109. From the entry yousselves
  • "Next time yous come along we'll have had a drop o' rain, an' then you can drownd yourselfs if you want to," said the stationmaster.1922, M. Leonora Eyles, Captivity. From the entry drownd
  • Alex staying with us a few days I'm a need to buy some groceries so yous two can have the house to yo'self 'til I get back.2012, Bertrand E. Brown, Sylvia's Dilemma: A Novel, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry a

Meaning of yous

  1. pronoun You.
  2. determiner The group spoken or written to.

Full definition of yous

Questions about yous in a sentence

How do you use yous in a sentence?
Yous is used as a pronoun and determiner. For example: “What are yous up to tonight?”
What is a short sentence with yous?
“What are yous kids doin?”
What does yous mean?
Yous means you.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yous (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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