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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.

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Examples

  • The coachman was absent refreshing himself at a neighbouring tap: the little street-boys cheered and hurrayed Sir Thomas, as, arrayed in gold and scarlet, he sate in his chariot.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • The coachman was absent refreshing himself at a neighbouring tap: the little street-boys cheered and hurrayed Sir Thomas, as, arrayed in gold and scarlet, he sate in his chariot.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • The street-boys cheered and hurrayed the Prince as he passed through the town.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • With the non-electors the Colonel was a decided favourite; the boys invariably hurrayed him; whereas they jeered and uttered ironical cries after poor

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Hornbull led the beneficiaire forward, amidst bursts of enthusiasm -- and she looked so handsome and radiant, with her hair still over her shoulders, that Pen hardly could contain himself for rapture: and he leaned over his mother's chair, and shouted, and hurrayed, and waved his hat.

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Hornbull led the beneficiaire forward, amidst bursts of enthusiasm — and she looked so handsome and radiant, with her hair still over her shoulders, that Pen hardly could contain himself for rapture: and he leaned over his mother’s chair, and shouted, and hurrayed, and waved his hat.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • With the non-electors the Colonel was a decided favourite; the boys invariably hurrayed him; whereas they jeered and uttered ironical cries after poor Barnes, asking, “Who beat his wife?

    The Newcomes 2006

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