How to Use yea in a Sentence

yea

noun
  • Caltrans has cleaned up the site twice over the past five yeas.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • And thank you to all the senators for not asking for the yeas and nays.
    — NBC News, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The mere mention of restaurant dress codes can unleash a torrent of yeas and nays.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 July 2019
  • The legislation was passed on a calling of the yeas and nays rather than a roll call vote.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2019
  • The representatives sit at dark-wood desks that are wired to a digital board on which yea and nay votes are tallied in green and red.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • The bill passed the Senate on a bipartisan basis with 67 yeas to 28 nays.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Sure, word warfare can nudge us on some issues – like yea or nay on a state infrastructure initiative or a county sales tax or a school district bond.
    — Sarah Stein Lubrano, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • What Dems are afraid of, then, is a Republican filibuster, which takes 60 yeas to defeat.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • These votes were surprise, surprise, split along party lines with Republicans voting yea and Democrats voting nay.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • In fact, the only obvious damage, notwithstanding that little girl’s scuffle, was a Band-Aid-size patch of goo. Polling-wise, a larger sample of the tourist yeas and neas was probably in order.
    — Michael Cieply, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2016
  • Democrats could easily block the president’s nominee under the old protocol of 60 yeas to halt a filibuster.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 4 July 2018
  • The vote at hand is called cloture – a procedural vote to move forward with debate on an under-discussion stimulus package and toward a yea or nay for final approval.
    — Katie Wadington, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The hope was that the Senate could get 60 yeas to open debate on the coronavirus measure Sunday – then speed up the process and pass the bill Monday.
    — Fox News, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Coach Kris Cofiell said that Wilton has been difficult for Glastonbury in the past, including its first regular season loss this yea.
    — Steve Smith, Courant Community, 7 June 2017
  • The amendment lost, but received 93 yea votes in the House and 24 in the Senate—a level of support that would have been implausible not that long ago.
    — Elliott Negin, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The amendment was voted down, but received 35 yea votes to 50 nays — a ratio that advocates considered to be a victory, however small.
    — Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 11 Feb. 2018
  • And the interstellar dust hasn't yet settled into a definitive yea or nay on Kepler-452b's realness.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018
  • GovTrack, a government transparency website, recorded Biden's yea vote on the 1993 Act.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2020
  • This time, a bill with enough votes to pass raced through, prompting spontaneous celebrations from one side of the aisle while Democrats on the other joined in a chant meant to predict a bloodbath for yea-voters the next election cycle.
    — Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 5 May 2017
  • The Senate's bipartisan border funding bill passed on Wednesday with an overwhelming majority of 84 yeas to 8 nays.
    — Rebecca Kaplan, CBS News, 27 June 2019
  • Yet getting government approval for a deal is not quite as simple as getting POTUS’ yea or nay, as much as that step in a merger process now is being taken as a given.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2025
  • But in 1984, a menace to Yuletide morality yea more dire than Starbucks holiday cups stirred vociferous objections.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
  • One is public employees who receive pensions that are exempt from Social Security payroll taxes, but who also worked at least 10 yeas in jobs that required them to pay into the system.
    — Maya C. Miller, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The students learned how the state Senate works upon hearing an unrecorded voice vote of yea or nay actually passed a two-year moratorium on selling AR-15 assault rifles like the one used in the school shooting.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • And on July 2, after the arrival of British forces in New York lent the proceedings new urgency, Congress did, in fact, declare independence—with a vote of 12 yeas, 0 nays, and 1 abstention.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
  • Monday’s vote before the UN's First Committee, which is focused on international security and disarmament, passed overwhelmingly, with representatives of 163 countries voting yea versus eight nays and nine abstentions.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 3 Nov. 2021

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