How to Use yucky in a Sentence

yucky

adjective

• The water was dirty and smelled yucky.
• I felt yucky after eating all that cake.
• Did that dirty bus have the nerve to splash you all over with yucky street water?
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 13 June 2019
• The children never got more than a few tired days and a yucky cough.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
• Removing your shoes at the door prevents the yucky stuff stuck to soles from being tracked through the house.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2022
• The yummy almonds were wrapped in a white packet stamped with a black cross, while the yucky ones were labelled with squares.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• How did two nice people get into such a yucky business?
  — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2017
• Those yucky tennis courts, which basically went unused since the park was built in the 1970s, are now gone and a new playground is in its place.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Brittney Griner speaks out for 1st time since being released from Russian prison At the time, people said this feels like kind of a yucky trade.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 13 June 2023
• Meanwhile, my dear husband is still chugging down yucky protein shakes and losing a pound a minute.
  — Aarti Sanan, Redbook, 17 Jan. 2012
• The only other place in the country with yucky weather will be the Pacific Northwest.
  — Judson Jones, CNN, 2 Nov. 2020
• In fact, beeswax candles work to neutralize the pollutants creeping around your house, everything from dust and mold to mildew and yucky odors.
  — Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored, 1 Oct. 2020
• For young people, for kids, there's this fascination about things that are yucky or gross or disgusting.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2020
• No coffee jitters, no tannins to turn it bitter, and no yucky pesticides.
  — Treehugger Editors, Treehugger, 29 June 2023
• The relationship is obviously to kids: parents only push them to eat foods that are yucky.
  — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Coconut oil brings anti-microbial powers to the table, keeping yucky and sickly things at bay.
  — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
• Shutting out these unwelcome intruders and making your home inhospitable to their yucky habits is the secret to keeping them away for good.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 7 Feb. 2018
• To be fair, a maggot-infested foot is an exceptionally yucky case for the characters on The Good Doctor to encounter.
  — Heather Finn, Good Housekeeping, 24 Sep. 2019
• This is reflected in both the Nipwhip product itself, which is all-natural and fortified against yucky things in order to keep things safe and healthy for mom and baby both.
  — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
• The people who love it are growing ever grayer, and French parents are no longer bringing up their young to appreciate a taste that any normal child instinctively finds yucky (god knows, mine does).
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
• Seldom has the natural tendency of artists to mine themselves for creative material been pushed to such exquisitely yucky extremes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2022
• Dear Readers: To avoid having to clean up those yucky, sticky drip rings left from the bottoms of condiment containers, such as ketchup and mustard, give them a quick wipe before returning them to your refrigerator shelf.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020
• The absurdity of the entire 90ish-person organization, which is famous for transactional relationships with studios among other yucky things, has been well-documented.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024