What's the difference between hooray and hurrah?

Hooray


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He tweeted: "The Sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hip hooray" and linked to the Sun website in September.
  • (2) Hooray, no more queuing behind coffee freeloaders,” tweeted Beverley de Valmency.
  • (3) If a beach this stunning were 400 miles south, it’d be smeared in luxury apartment complexes, hooray Henrys and yachts and, thereby, ruined.
  • (4) However, when Olly Murs releases cheeky-chappy ska-lite single, Hooray!
  • (5) There's a craft beer truck (a huge hooray from my husband) that is romantically called Captured By Porches .
  • (6) So, hooray for the private sector, riding to the rescue, when the NHS couldn't help.
  • (7) A complaint was lodged with the Greater London authority after the mayor of London tweeted: " The Sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hip hooray " and linked to the Sun website in September.
  • (8) To be honest, turning 40 was much like when I turned 30, though I felt a bit more grown-up (meaning I drank fizzy wine and said, "No thanks", as opposed to "Hooray", when a stranger tried to shove an unidentified pill into my mouth).
  • (9) I'm saying "Hooray" because he has recognised that the only way to save America is to confront it.
  • (10) It’s also the first week this year I’ve spotted wrist hankies – hooray!
  • (11) That’s my judgment.” Again, the prospect of stock market meltdown is swatted away: “I don’t think that follows at all … if you’re coming forward with a positive proposal to trade across Europe and the world, a lot of the stock markets would say, hooray.” Then why do US-owned banks threaten to leave?
  • (12) If the year's two biggest blockbusters strive to be meatier than Transformers, hooray.
  • (13) Our pal Roger Kirkby sends his first missive of the night: 40 pitches for Boston, 25 for Detroit, hooray, a long night coming in the bar Very true, I feel like sending a long Ken Burns "Civil War" documentary email to my girlfriend.
  • (14) I'm not saying, "Hooray, he offered a tough, dark recognition of our reality."
  • (15) All you need to do is say, ‘You know what, what I’ve said this stuff in the past, it was a mistake, it’s hurting people’s mental health, it’s part of the problem, it’s not part of the solution, I’m sorry, hooray for gay people, here’s some glitter.’ ” Aleta (@aleta_k) Bob Katter won’t look at Josh Thomas - is he afraid of catching gay?
  • (16) 8.56pm BST Hooray and haroo for Ruby who is this week's star baker.
  • (17) Lagarde and Kim say the world needs to make a better fist of tackling inequality – hooray to that.
  • (18) All you need to do is say, ‘You know what, what I’ve said this stuff in the past, it was a mistake, it’s hurting people’s mental health, it’s part of the problem, it’s not part of the solution, I’m sorry, hooray for gay people, here’s some glitter.’ ” The winner of the International Emmy will be announced in a New York ceremony next month.
  • (19) He felt it had not included the little people: HS2 Ltd “haven’t really met anybody – only those that want a free lunch, the hooray Henrys”.
  • (20) The mugs said: "A royal baby in 2013" and "Hooray for Will and Kate".

Hurrah


Definition:

  • (interj.) Alt. of Hurra
  • (n.) A cheer; a shout of joy, etc.
  • (v. i.) To utter hurrahs; to huzza.
  • (v. t.) To salute, or applaud, with hurrahs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As for Bowie, Tony Visconti seems confident that The Next Day is a new beginning rather than simply one last hurrah.
  • (2) Tonight, hurrah, I have a seat on my favourite train home, the 1819.
  • (3) Bosnia-Herzegovina Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Harrowingly for Greece, there is a rival Balkan Bloc entry and hurrah, the song is in the local language.
  • (4) High tempo, chances galore, Dortmund very much in the mood, Bayern taking long finding their rhythm," hurrahs Zoltan Toszgei.
  • (5) Hurrah & huzzah for James Dunsby, a greater man you could not meet."
  • (6) An email: "I absolutely agree with Lucky Pierre," hurrahs Michael Best.
  • (7) Daily Mail: Such as he never said "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" and "That Hitler is a lovely bloke".
  • (8) The prime minister, Matteo Renzi, thanked the police and prosecutors involved, tweeting: “Hurrah for Italy.
  • (9) It's a tribute to Rimington's chairmanship that this commitment to easeful enjoyment is loyally echoed by colleagues, with her fellow judge and author Susan Hill tweeting: "Hurrah!
  • (10) As critics lined up to slam judges' unexpected selection, which included two debut novelists ahead of titles by former winner Alan Hollinghurst and Costa winner Sebastian Barry, judge Susan Hill tweeted "Hurrah!
  • (11) on the dysfunctional value destructive way the Co-op has been run by mgt May 7, 2014 Indeed.... 4.13pm BST Back to the Co-op Bank -- MPs have cited the example of the Rochdale Pioneers (hurrah!
  • (12) Labour is committed to a freelance charter and leader Ed Miliband promises to deliver equal rights for the self-employed and (hurrah!)
  • (13) Martin Beck, senior economic advisor to the EY Item Club, said the numbers represented “one last hurrah” for the economy before it entered a weaker and more turbulent period.
  • (14) There was still a final night out in Split to come, though, and I steeled myself for one last hurrah.
  • (15) Black people were now in the mainstream … Hurrah!
  • (16) And is this a triumphant hurrah for science, finally trumping arts in changing society?
  • (17) British summer time is just days away but winter has had one last hurrah, with snow falling across parts of the UK.
  • (18) People may keep on being dishonest, may get away with it and may publish in the same journals time and again, to the hurrahs of like-minded people who are often editors of the same journals," he writes.
  • (19) But there was one more dominant figure lurking in the wings - Robert Maxwell, whose introduction of colour into the Mirror Group papers, before he plundered the pension fund and literally went overboard, gave it what may have been its last hurrah.
  • (20) He was knocked out by George Foreman for the second time in 1976, retired, and came back in 1981 for a draw against Jumbo Cummings in his last hurrah.

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