Example sentences for: nay

How can you use “nay” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Let no sinister magpie say you nay

  • Isn't this just another annoying example of Boomers mistakenly thinking they discovered, nay, invented, something that's been around for quite a while?

  • Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted "nay" on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.

  • But I've practiced the critical equivalent of abstinence for many years now, and it's time to reassert what can never be forgotten: It is the right, nay the duty, of a critic to fall and fall hard.

  • Although they talk of freedom and democracy, their key demand is that individuals be prevented from getting what they want--that governments be free, nay encouraged, to deny individuals the right to drive cars, work in offices, eat cheeseburgers, and watch satellite TV.


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