How to Use yes in a Sentence

yes

1 of 2 adverb
  • The answer is yes, and here’s why.
    — Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Sara asks her daughter in the video, who nods yes.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The short answer is yes, but the process isn’t the same.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The short answer is yes, bass do have teeth—lots of them in fact.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
  • If the answer is yes, set a cash budget for food and gifts.
    — Essence, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The answer to your question is yes, add him.
    — Stan Son, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Bowe nods yes, and Knight then slips the ring on her finger.
    — John Wawrow, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The short answer is yes, but there’s some nuance.
    — Peter Keating, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The short answer is yes, aluminum foil can go into the oven.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The strange answer to that is yes, but not really.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • The short answer is yes, jicama is good for you.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • If the answer to any of those questions is yes, push yourself to cut back this year.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • In another sense, the answer might be yes.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The answer is yes, but with important caveats.
    — Katie Cloyd, Martha Stewart, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The short answer is yes, but there is a right way to freeze the fruit and use it afterward.
    — Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 1 May 2026
  • The unifying idea of the beauty design for his show was yes, pink!
    — Kathleen Hou, ELLE, 9 Sep. 2023
  • If the answer to all three of these questions is yes, then speed is critical.
    — Starr Million Baker, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • If the answer is still yes, McDaniels still has one card left to play.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
  • One of them is to bypass the yes-or-no question and briefly discuss the item instead.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The short answer is yes, and the savings stack up faster than most people expect.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
  • If yes, scroll onward for eight bomber jacket outfits to help get your wheels turning.
    — Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Trust takes time, so yes, share content and share knowledge but also respect the process.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • According to experts, the answer is yes, most sweaters should be stretched.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Denver City Council should vote yes.
    — Michael Hancock, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The short answer is yes, gold bars can lose their value, though not in the way most people expect.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • If yes, integration starts before the term sheet is signed.
    — Jeremy Barnett, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The schools competing for this prize are answering yes.
    — Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Both of them were yes votes on avoiding a government shutdown for much of the last crisis.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The answer is yes; pushing and shoving can never get you to true alignment.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • If the answer is yes, service scope is a design problem, not a deal breaker.
    — Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026

yes

2 of 2 noun
  • We need a yes to go ahead with the project.
  • She answered all the questions with yeses and nos.
  • Of all the questions, this one is a yes.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • All that was left to do was ship out the queries and wait for a yes.
    — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023
  • His answer went from a no to a maybe to a yes.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • What is the meaning of a 'yes' or 'no' vote?
    — Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Their work is to say yes or no to a risk and to put a price on the yes.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Swiss earned a yes from all four judges, moving her to the next round.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 27 July 2022
  • Get the rejection or get the yes.
    — Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Its message, in short, was something of a yes.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Every action should feel like a yes.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • If the goal is helping kids learn, opting in should be an easy yes.
    — Shlomo Soroka, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Eighty-two yes votes were just enough, and the court approved the amendment.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • As with much of nutrition, the answer is not a clear yes or no.
    — Rahel Mathews, The Conversation, 7 May 2020
  • For the past two months, the answer has been a resounding yes.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 5 June 2026
  • The women received four yeses and advanced to the next round.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 19 July 2023
  • So far, the answer to both has been a resounding yes.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The answer turned out to be a resounding yes.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 19 Nov. 2025
  • To his surprise, the company replied with a yes.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But the yes votes stalled at 35, three short of the 38 states needed.
    — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • The world now contains more ways to ask questions than a simple yes or no or five-point scale.
    — Alexandra Samuel, WSJ, 16 May 2017
  • The answer has been a resounding yes.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026
  • Healthy partnership answers that with a yes.
    — Paulina Roe, Refinery29, 9 Dec. 2025
  • All three times it was rejected despite getting more yes votes than no.
    — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • That’s a yes, another yes, a not really, and a sort of.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Any one of the 50 boats could be intercepted, and that's a yes.
    — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • According to the figures, the answer is a clear yes.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The answer is a resounding yes.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The answer is a resounding yes.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Candles are almost always a yes.
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2025

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