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How to use nay in a sentence

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The goal of the TRAC will be to propose a new tax system which will get a quick decision from Congress, yea or nay.
He has demanded that U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick apply tighter restrictions to them before Congress votes yea or nay.
Must President Bush come before Congress, the Senate for example, and ask for a yea or nay vote on war with Iraq?
As you know, he's on the Judiciary Committee, which must vote yea or nay on sending her nomination to the full Senate.
A two-month ballot period will follow for a vote of yea or nay, with only editorial comments allowed.
Stuck in Oxford Street, I made my way to an Angus Steakhouse, nay, the very one that Ollie and I had lunched at during the summer.
I found myself strangely, nay, irresistibly attracted to this shocking and revolting oppressor of women and blacks.
One by-product was even more intense co-production activity, since the Arts Council encouraged, nay insisted, on partnership funding.
Yes, it's a time to be doubly, nay trebly cautious, but what about the men in blue doing their duty with enthusiasm too?
Disappointed customers unleashed a tsunami of emails asking, nay begging, for another chance to secure a bargain.
He despises the ignorant and the sinner as doomed to perdition, nay, he considers them as the enemies of God, and as such to be persecuted.
The history of the first group of wines has been heavily influenced, nay hampered, by the commercial muscle of protectionist Bordeaux.
It's all a judgment call at the end of the day, and one person usually will step in and say yea or nay.
This means astonished, nay furious, taxpayers will see expensive full-time staff working adjacent to cheaper county sub contract workers.
Never mind me, I don't suppose the kids in the next field, nay the next village, got a wink of sleep all weekend.
Six of the sixty-four nay votes had come from border state representatives, and fifty-eight from Northern Democrats.
Good teaching, nay great teaching, may yet be the salvation of the university in society in our day.
The consumption of the previous evening, prodigious by any standards, was exceeded nay, dwarfed by that which was to follow.
Nay nay, they wrote him off in the '80s as a dinosaur, but he's back big time.
I responded nay, three times nay, though my manner had become rather gruff, and I was curt with them.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And what greater absurditie can there bee, then to say that one cure shall serue for diuers, nay, contrarious sortes of diseases?
Takes the advance, but is justified in it by the slowness, nay, by the stagnancy of the administration.
For there they bear higher sway than the free-born, nay, higher than the nobles.
It would be foolish, nay, impossible, to try to resuscitate an old form of art.
It was on his account that we were tolerated, nay, even advised and helped and entertained.
How I wished I could have spent days, nay weeks, in the neighbourhood of the water-mill!
Memory pictured her pale and drooping, nay gradually sinking under the cureless malady which brought her to her grave at last.
To plagiarise these folks whom hardly anyone could henceforth read, was to render them service, nay, to pay them too much honour.
George Thacher, a congregationalist preacher from Massachusetts, alone voted nay.
Much, nay most, of this was undoubtedly owing to the genius of the songstress.
So why should the likeliest lass in all the west country say nay?
Nay, nay, the cartoon of the Congress shall bring itself to pass.
My lord cardinal, besides, can endow his niece royally, nay, more than royally.
It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.
The packers might own the land, but he claimed the landscape, and there was no one to say nay to this.
Nay, nay, I'll never slip my neck out o' the yoke, and leave the load to be drawn by the weak uns.
If a bishop and his lady pronounce her visitable, who shall say them nay?
But in most creatures, nay in man himself, very often the brow is but a mere strip of alpine land lying along the snow line.
He through whom the heaven was 'stablished, nay, the highest heaven.
The air and sunshine, nay, the very rocks are imbued with it.
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