How to Use hooray in a Sentence

hooray

interjection
  • In the meantime, hooray for the archive!
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Robots that don’t squish people into goo, hooray!
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Whichever video gets the most likes will win the People’s Choice award, hooray!
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2016
  • There were a lot of screws, but they were all separated into individual bags, and each part of the shed was clearly stamped with a part number (hooray for not having to peel off a bunch of stickers).
    Clint Davis, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The series was expressly marked as preparation for Australia’s full tour in 2027 (hooray, finally some selection foresight), but those runs might not go unnoticed in the more immediate future.
    Sam Dalling, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • So academics on the left and newspapers and so on, essentially saying that the American Revolution was all about slavery and that Britain was allowing the slaves to be freed, and all of this, so hooray for Britain, which was a very improbable development.
    Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026

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