How to use yuck in a sentence
30 example sentences · interjection, noun, verb
Yuck means uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. Example: “Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!”
Examples of yuck by meaning
interjectionUttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
- Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
nounSomething disgusting.
- “I hate the yuck."2003 December 8, The New Yorker
verbTo say "yuck"; to express disgust.
- I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .1994, Linda Shands, A Time to Keep, page 37
- Dom was yucking and yelling.1997, Walter Mosley, Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Novel, page 79
- He was yucking loudly at the plate in front of him.2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, page 47
verbTo vomit or gag;.
- She thought it was overpoweringly gross and yucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .1987, Martyn Godfrey, Sandra Scott, It Isn't Easy Being Ms Teeny Wonderful, page 130
- And she yucked.2011, Gregory Dark, Susie and the Snow-it-alls, page 138
- As he yucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.2021, Glenn Rolfe, August's Eyes
verbFuck.
- I can see these pro-lifer's screams of “Stop killing the foetus” turn to “I ain't taking no mother yucking nickker home to my mother yucking house."2004, Michael Atkinson, Life Is Amazing, page 365
- But when I was out there, I yucked up everything.2009, Joan Hiatt Harlow, Secret of the Night Ponies, page 107
- Boy, you sure as hell yucked this up.2010, Don L. Clark, Magy la Magnifica, page 28
verbTo laugh or joke.
- And I so miss the laughs we yucked when I used to point out to you the irony of people's names in town .2006, Joseph George Hayes, A Map of the Harbor Islands, page 299
- His buddies yucked and laughed as they motored away.2006, Dan Bomkamp, Thanks Thunderfoot, page 99
- Ori wiped his cheek and yucked again.2014, Caroline Adderson, Jasper John Dooley: NOT in Love
verbTo yank or grab.
- I took it bad when it were lifted and yucked into a truck and shifted1945, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 209, page 393
nounSynonym of yearling (“a sophomore at West Point military academy”).
- I guess I should have been looking for Jim to partner up with for physics help as a Yuck!2008, United States Military Academy. Association of Graduates, Assembly (volume 67, issues 1-4, page 126)
More sentences with yuck
- Recycled sewer water is opposed by many sanitation agencies due to the yuck factor.From the entry yuck factor
- I suppose it was okay, I was just yucked out by the mess.2019, Nimko Ali, What We’re Told Not to Talk About. From the entry yuck out
- “Yuck Fou,” I slurred, my eyelids drooping as the room began to spin.2018, Ian Mark, Love from Amanda to Zoey, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry yuck fou
- Welcome to the world of yuck, or what the academic world calls grossology.2010, New Scientist, Mick O'Hare, How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free. From the entry grossology
- Zod: n. something really weird or totally monstrous; worse than a nerd, a yuck out.[1982, Mary Corey, Victoria Westermark, “zod”, in Fer Shur! How to Be a Valley Girl-Totally!, Toronto, O.N. […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page…. From the entry zod
- The market, she notes, has been over-saturated with dresses "yucked up with a lot of trim.1978, Stores: The Bulletin of the N.R.D.G.A. - Volume 60, page 29. From the entry yuck up
- It was thick and sweet and yuck.2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 181. From the entry scull
- Boo, hiss, yuck, vom; cute kids belong at home and in soft-play centres, they have no place on stages.2016 January 9, Sam Wollaston, “The Voice review – nonsense with laughs”, in The Guardian. From the entry vom
- The “yuck factor” is a deeply ingrained psychological thing.2011, Charles Fishman, The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, page 145. From the entry yuck factor
- But yuck has become diktat, with Catholic MPs up to cabinet level being given a three-line whip by their bishops.2008 April 12, Simon Jenkins, Richard Harries, “Atheist versus Bishop”, in The Guardian. From the entry three-line whip
- Paul had a Mazda RX-7, the sharp older model before they yucked it up and made it look American.2003, Jeremiah F. Healy, Off-season and Other Stories, page 81. From the entry yuck up
- Dave is quite yucked out from the altitude .1980, The Canadian Alpine Journal - Volumes 63-, page 19. From the entry yuck out
- 'Yuck Fou,' the dwarf returned jovially.2013, Stan Nicholls, The Complete Orcs, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry yuck fou
- Once he even turned up at our aerobics class, clad in a muscle shirt and royal blue spandex shorts, which yucked me out beyond belief.2006, Carol Snow, Been There, Done That. From the entry beyond belief
Meaning of yuck
- interjection Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
- noun Something disgusting.
- noun A general insult.
Questions about yuck in a sentence
- How do you use yuck in a sentence?
- Yuck is used as an interjection, noun and verb. For example: “Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!”
- What is a short sentence with yuck?
- “And she yucked.”
- What does yuck mean?
- Yuck means uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
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