How to Use yea in a Sentence

yea

noun

• And thank you to all the senators for not asking for the yeas and nays.
  — NBC News, 29 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Here’s one: Members of Congress don’t just vote yea or nay on bills!
  — Matt Negrin, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2017
• The mere mention of restaurant dress codes can unleash a torrent of yeas and nays.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 July 2019
• The bill passed the Senate on a bipartisan basis with 67 yeas to 28 nays.
  — Grace Segers, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• There are two possible answers to this question: yea or nay.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• What Dems are afraid of, then, is a Republican filibuster, which takes 60 yeas to defeat.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• It’s not the first time that Musk has asked Twitter users to participate in a yea-or-nay democratic process to weigh in on decisions for the tech company.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 19 Dec. 2022
• 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
• GovTrack, a government transparency website, recorded Biden's yea vote on the 1993 Act.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2020
• The yeas and nays are required under Senate Resolution 483.
  — NBC News, 3 Feb. 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
• These votes were surprise, surprise, split along party lines with Republicans voting yea and Democrats voting nay.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• 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 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
• Commissioners obliged, voting unanimously Wednesday to defer a yea-or-nay vote on the project until Feb. 6.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 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
• Rogers spoke before a U.S. Senate subcommittee weighing the yea or nay on the value of national public television.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
• 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
• 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 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
• 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