What's the difference between hurrah and yeah?

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.

Yeah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (2) Yeah, just being dead made more sense than being alive.
  • (3) Did you make them get out of the car?” I said “Well, yeah,” she said, looking confused.
  • (4) 3.19am BST Pacers 49-66 Heat - 4:47 remaining, 3rd quarter So yeah, this is not how Indiana wanted to start things.
  • (5) I’d have been a TV celeb type, done these albums that are nonsense – and yeah, with hindsight, that wouldn’t have been a bad idea.
  • (6) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
  • (7) His support, he claimed, was due to admiration of Corbyn’s campaigning history (“I saw some sick picture of him from back in the day when he was campaigning about anti-apartheid and I thought: ‘Yeah, I like your energy’”) as well as the fact that he seemed to express concern for segments of society that other parties don’t (“I feel like he gets what the ethnic minorities are going through and the homeless and the working class”).
  • (8) But yeah, it's all a question of degree and perspective, isn't it?"
  • (9) And I always go, yeah, but you don’t decide to be a transvestite when you’re a sophisticated adult – you’re a child.
  • (10) They wanted to know if Marsha P Johnson was going to be a part of the movie and I was like, ‘Yeah!
  • (11) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
  • (12) Yeah, here's a thing that's not entirely impossible.
  • (13) Obligatory indie section is obligatory Yeah, but there was some good stuff in Microsoft's blipvert run-through of indie titles – all coming to the console courtesy of the ID@Xbox programme, which seeks to help smaller studios make and distribute games on the platform.
  • (14) Yet somehow Yeah Yeah Yeahs are still together and doing their best to wrong-foot their fans 3.
  • (15) Yeah, as I said, come back from the dead.” I have managed to get my hands on some of the correspondence that’s been going back and forth, and can give you a sneak preview of the ideas.
  • (16) "Yeah, they pay you a fee, a nominal fee," Noth told the Guardian.
  • (17) When he came back in January, he said to me, 'Yeah, they [the local Afghans] had their first market in five years last week.
  • (18) When we seen the things happening in Tottenham, everyone just clicked and said, 'Yeah that's our chance.
  • (19) "Oh yeah, she's still massively important," he says, citing her strong connections with the underground and her instinct for sniffing out cutting-edge collaborators as reasons for continuing to take her work seriously.
  • (20) … like I feel like I haven't [been] given the same opportunities and chances as other people have … because at the end of day, yeah, maybe I have got a bit of hate in my heart … against the authority … Like I'm not scared of the police … I don't give a fuck about them, that's not gonna stop me, like if I was scared of the police like, I wouldn't have been able to survive.

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