Hooray is an English word with synonyms like hurrah or cheer. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hooray in a sentence
Hooray meaning
Used to express approval, joy or victory.
Using Hooray
- The main meaning on this page is: Used to express approval, joy or victory.
- Useful related words include: hurrah, cheer.
- In the example corpus, hooray often appears in combinations such as: hooray for, double hooray, hooray and.
Context around Hooray
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 1 questions, 10 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hooray
- In this selection, "hooray" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of exclamations.
- Around the word, double, triple, sip, followed, bacon and jump stand out and add context to how "hooray" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a double hooray and a and a triple hooray. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hooray" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and abdulai, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hooray
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hooray for Lady Land! (4 words)
Hooray for open source! (4 words)
Hooray, we've made it to the weekend! (8 words)
District 4 Commissioner Bender announced on the eve of the holiday that he would utilize District 4 discretionary funds to pay the toll from midnight Thursday, July 4, to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, July 7. Hooray! (37 words)
For example, before she sang “Happy and You Know It” Peasley told the children that they should shout “Hooray” really loudly, because it feels kind of mischievous to be doing so in a library. (34 words)
It was incredibly popular among Confederate soldiers, who would sing the lyrics "I wish I was in the land of cotton/Old times there are not forgottenThen I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! (34 words)
Am I calling for a “Hooray, The Academy is now diverse!” celebration of these statistics? (15 words)
The most refreshing way to take a break from the heat and find relaxation may be at your local tea shop or locally owned restaurant, sip sip hooray! (28 words)
Hooray, we've made it to the weekend! (8 words)
The video then highlights the Hey Now!, Hooray, Jump Around, Lil' Supercar, Master of Puppets, Heart Sign, Get Schwifty, and Fusion! (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
The first one was identified with a "hooray" followed by a "double hooray" and a "triple hooray".
The most refreshing way to take a break from the heat and find relaxation may be at your local tea shop or locally owned restaurant, sip sip hooray!
The No. 1 ingredient in Hooray Bacon is coconut oil and there are no scary additives or ingredients.
Therefore, for all the good times, the good journalism and the selfless time he spent on helping to develop New African, we say Hip Hip Hooray! to Peter.
Hooray for any member of Congress willing to keep their promise.
Hooray, we've made it to the weekend!
The video then highlights the Hey Now!, Hooray, Jump Around, Lil' Supercar, Master of Puppets, Heart Sign, Get Schwifty, and Fusion!
Am I calling for a “Hooray, The Academy is now diverse!” celebration of these statistics?
Hooray for Lady Land!
Hooray, red state abortions will live to see another day!
It may not feel like it now, but we’ll be back to those office functions (hooray?) and big family get-togethers before too long.
But hey, at least he gives her credit for aiming money at "the nice stuff that people like" instead of spending public money on the super-rich, so hooray!
District 4 Commissioner Bender announced on the eve of the holiday that he would utilize District 4 discretionary funds to pay the toll from midnight Thursday, July 4, to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, July 7. Hooray!
First of all, a hearty double hooray for both your new baby Canadian mat leave, both of which are beautiful things.
For example, before she sang “Happy and You Know It” Peasley told the children that they should shout “Hooray” really loudly, because it feels kind of mischievous to be doing so in a library.
Hooray for open source!
Hooray, it's time for yet another dispatch from Fox News's big fun week of failure.
It was incredibly popular among Confederate soldiers, who would sing the lyrics "I wish I was in the land of cotton/Old times there are not forgottenThen I wish I was in Dixie, hooray!
Hooray, excellent, but I’m almost afraid to ask what’s going to raffled off instead.
Hooray for cars I wasn't aware of before now!
Common combinations with hooray
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: