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
  • Pour white vinegar down drains to banish yucky scents.
    — Emerson Latham, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2026
  • The children never got more than a few tired days and a yucky cough.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But these products can be expensive and frankly, yucky.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Amaro shares the top spots in your home that might be harboring some yucky smells—and how to tackle them for good.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Amaro is sharing the top spots in your home that might be harboring some yucky smells—and how to tackle them for good.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, my dear husband is still chugging down yucky protein shakes and losing a pound a minute.
    — Aarti Sanan, Redbook, 17 Jan. 2012
  • For any tough-on pieces of food or yucky residue, the brand recommends using steel wool to gently scour inside.
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Follow these steps to get rid of hardened residue, odors, and germs, and learn how to make outdoor trash cans a little less yucky.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • No coffee jitters, no tannins to turn it bitter, and no yucky pesticides.
    — Treehugger Editors, Treehugger, 29 June 2023
  • For young people, for kids, there's this fascination about things that are yucky or gross or disgusting.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Not living a dream—the city can be yucky and hard—but inhabiting a blur of the fictional and the real.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • Sam spots a slug sliming its way along a bed of moist leaves and points it out to her father—even these yucky creatures can look like miniature miracles.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Coconut oil brings anti-microbial powers to the table, keeping yucky and sickly things at bay.
    — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • The cordless wet/dry vacuum has a 40-minute runtime and a self-cleaning system to remove yucky stuff from the wet rollers.
    — Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Each page depicts two opposites—one yummy and one yucky—while showing a toddler’s reaction to eating each one.
    — Laura Denby, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The only other place in the country with yucky weather will be the Pacific Northwest.
    — Judson Jones, CNN, 2 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • There’s yucky pleasure to be had in watching these young people flounder, all while the alien molts through multiple hostile futures, waiting to be reborn.
    — Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her mom offered her a Sour Patch Kid, which previous patients had figured out is perfect for covering up the yucky taste.
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Monsters are ghastly, grotesque, gruesome, hair-raising, hideous, horrifying, and downright yucky creatures.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • Just like conventional cookies made with wheat, flavors and textures of gluten-free cookies vary wildly, from dry and crumbly to rich and chewy, and from deliciously munchable to yucky and forgettable.
    — Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026

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