Get to know Ugh better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Ugh meaning
- Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.
- Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman.
Using Ugh
- The main meaning on this page is: Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance. | Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman.
- In the example corpus, ugh often appears in combinations such as: and ugh, ugh so, like ugh.
Context around Ugh
- Average sentence length in these examples: 15.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 2 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ugh
- In this selection, "ugh" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 15.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thinking, sustained, ghostbusteeeeers, pdas, weeding and yes stand out and add context to how "ugh" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the ugh timing and and thinking ugh that s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ugh" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ugh
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The organization itself though, ugh. (5 words)
Ugh, yes, pets for president. (5 words)
For example, one follower said: “Ugh. (6 words)
I know how to do it, and I obviously have the space, but two factors always get in the way: The time to do the tilling, planting, and—ugh—weeding, and the colonies of ground squirrels that live in the olive orchards surrounding my home. (45 words)
Ugh, we can’t even imagine what she’s going through right now… we just want to send her (and her daughter) all of our love. (26 words)
Ugh, that sounds like an awful position to be in. If only her body and her mind could get on the same page here! (24 words)
And you’re just like, ugh, what’s going on? (10 words)
It’s like: ‘Ugh, do I have to do this? (10 words)
Ugh, that sounds like an awful position to be in. If only her body and her mind could get on the same page here! (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
And I remember rolling my eyes about that and thinking: ‘Ugh, that’s not the fun answer,’” she recalled.
Aries has the potential to totally embarrass Virgo with their big mouth, high energy and (ugh) PDAs.
Buyers turned to sellers and took the price back below the 100/200 hour MAs (which could not be sustained - UGH!).
From “baby,” to “bae,” and “buh” all the way down to “ugh”.
Those women ain’t ghostbusteeeeers” ugh so annoying.
Ugh…not a night to look forward to with those performances.
Ugh” and then wrote “WeHo gays” for “having the girls questioning themselves”.
UGH, there is a light over just one corner of the ring.
And you’re just like, ugh, what’s going on?
Except for 2-3 packages of balony (ugh), the cooler shelves have been completely and totally empty.
For example, one follower said: “Ugh.
I know how to do it, and I obviously have the space, but two factors always get in the way: The time to do the tilling, planting, and—ugh—weeding, and the colonies of ground squirrels that live in the olive orchards surrounding my home.
It’s like: ‘Ugh, do I have to do this?
The organization itself though, ugh.
Ugh, it’s gross but it’s also (weirdly?) satisfying.
Ugh, that sounds like an awful position to be in. If only her body and her mind could get on the same page here!
Ugh, we can’t even imagine what she’s going through right now… we just want to send her (and her daughter) all of our love.
Ugh, yes, pets for president.
We could be in the middle of a great sex romp, but the second he wants me to go in the back door … ugh.
December is a busy month, we were told, but the bank apparently also had some reservations about the, ugh, timing.
Common combinations with ugh
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and ugh 3×
- ugh so 3×
- like ugh 3×
- ugh that 2×
- to ugh 2×
- the ugh 2×
- ghostbusteeeeers ugh 2×
- ugh what 2×
- ugh the 2×