Dictionary Entry
An exclamation to get attention.
In a Sentence
“Hey! Listen!”
Origin
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Common Phrases
Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “hey”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sub. Content, so thou art cropped or hanged first.
Trick. Hey-day, hey-day, if you are for that sport, I
among ye; I must raise my voice too, then look to it ; i
Read full poem →r.iu|.',hl loves so noble, so reform'd, so clean,
TImi I hey, who brought foul fires, and thiihcr camo
'I'll lKi!>i;ain, went tliimce with a holy llame.
Read full poem →Pete looked out the window. “Hey, are you guys watching to see if the
coast is clear?”
Read full poem →“Hey, Pop, how about the movies first?” some guy asked.
Read full poem →We ran toward the admission gate and Daniel saw us running away.
“HEY, YOU LITTLE PERVERTS! COME BACK HERE! COME BACK!”
We kept running.
Read full poem →HEY say when virtue slipped from her,
Awakened by her fall,
Read full poem →2 R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 2
3 Hey-Diddle-Diddle-Picture Book
4 The Panjandrum Picture Book
Read full poem →'At they git up there an' sing it,
Hey dum diddle, loud and gay.
Why, it shames the name o' sacred
