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Example sentences for "yes"

Lexicographically close words:
yers; yersel; yerself; yersilf; yerth; yese; yeshibah; yest; yester; yesterday
  1. De bells would ring for day, sissy, and we had to get up and start right in working, yes mam.

  2. Dey didn't 'low us to sing on our plantation 'cause if we did we just sing ourselves happy and git to shouting and dat would settle de work, yes mam.

  3. I 'haved so I didn't git licked like some more did, yes indeed I did.

  4. Right now a gang of his old slaves' children is livin' right there owning and working property their parents slaved on, de old Gilbert estate and his folks der wid' em, yes mam.

  5. He didn't even turn around he just backed out and don't you know dem white folks kilt him for stepping inside a white man's hotel by mistake, yes they did.

  6. Yes' I'se goin to do it son, I sure is, yes indeed.

  7. I had it mighty hard in dem days, yes I did but den it wasn't hard as some others had it.

  8. Bless your soul, daughter, he was a hard task master, yes he was.

  9. He said yes to everything she asked him about the view, but he saw very little of it.

  10. Oh yes ma'm, I seed the Ku Klux, yes ma'm.

  11. Oh, yes ma'am, they burned up everything.

  12. Not in my case surely" answered Cyril, "oh Helen do say yes and make me a happy man.

  13. Oh yes sir" eagerly replied the clerk, who would not have disagreed for the world.

  14. Oh yes I know" said Helen "they are very rich aren't they?

  15. Well yes father," sighed Beatrice, "I hope you are not angry?

  16. Oh yes he will be all right it is only for a few howers" said Mrs. Hose.

  17. Yes yes anything" gasped Helen nervously "father is ill I know very ill, oh Cyril tell me quickly.

  18. Oh yes father" said Helen "I was not thinking of myself, but it always knocks you up so, and just when we're all so happy.

  19. In reply to Helen's enquiry she replied in hearty tones "Oh yes miss, Miss Lincarrol is in right enough, she's been expecting you all the morning almost.

  20. Gladys "oh yes fairly so they are both fair you know.

  21. Oh Heavens" ejaculated the old woman "all the money gone, yes every brass farthing of it, my poor Miss Helen you'll have to go begging now and in sober earnest too.

  22. Oh yes sir, dont you fret" replied Marshland and now is there anything I can do for you?

  23. I believe in my Jesus, yes ma'am, if it ain't been for Him how I lib?

  24. Mosser scratch he haid, and say, yes he know how Mr. Binyard drink, and mebbe dats why de last bottle empty.

  25. Lord yes I got my second wife and she's a young gal', but she doos' whut I wants her to.

  26. Den it swing from dat whirl into a swift stream dat take you a mile a minute, yes sir, a mile a minute fer I don't know how fer.

  27. Oh, yes Lord, I got seven chillun dat come here fore my old man die, but dey all done gone en get married en left me by myself.

  28. Oh, yes ma'am, I kin tell you 'bout de war times.

  29. The old man said yes to everything, or when she said no, he too said no.

  30. But we have to suffer, to be silent, to say yes to everything.

  31. CEN: Yes faith, madam, and mistress Mavis and she will set up a side.

  32. TRUE: Yes faith; if thou shouldst hope otherwise, I should repent me: this horn got me entrance; kiss it.

  33. OTT: Yes sir, but I do take advice of my doctor to dream of it as little as I can.

  34. MAV: Yes faith, do, and bring sir Dauphine with you.

  35. I think we have an agency in the mere names of the trees which will cause people to buy more, yes a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand more trees, than they do at the present time.

  36. VAN DUZEE: Yes sir, I make that as a motion.

  37. His visitor had been well drilled by his wife, and said neither yes nor no; but the old merchant was a man of experience, and knew how to loosen his tongue.

  38. I, for my part, said yes to everything he proposed.

  39. I love him, yes I love him, you cannot think how dearly; still, I cannot be his!

  40. He looked at her triumphantly, and she eagerly replied: "Yes, yes indeed; and in our country I think something worth having.

  41. Only do not ask me yet, to speak the final yes or no.

  42. Blair said yes emphatically; Chase said yes in a qualified way.

  43. No one would be ready to answer yes to any of these questions.

  44. Meanwhile, he said neither yes nor no, but asked time for reflection, promising to give his answer the next day before twelve o'clock.

  45. Between good men, my friends, it is enough to say yes or no.

  46. Avow your crime; did you come, yes or no, to poison Jean-Louis?


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    yesterday afternoon; yesterday evening