Yikes
"Yikes" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Yikes!
Yikes, we are in the soup now!
Yikes, wait a second!
Yikes, and he's your doctor?
Yikes! The dog jumped off the boat.
“Yikes, my battery’s nearly dead.” “You should have charged it overnight while you were sleeping.”
"We searched the spacecraft centimetre by centimetre, and still, there's no sign of the xenomorph." "Yikes!"
Yikes, how cold it is!
"I guess you just slept through our last class." "Yeah, I wasn't able to keep myself awake any longer. Do you think the teacher noticed?" "They didn't seem to notice, but you completely dozed off, so all the boys were laughing about it." "Yikes. That's probably even worse."
That's a yikes from me, sweaty.
Yikes! A monster!
Then she told me I was ‘beautiful, for a black girl’. —Yikes!
John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!
EXACTLY, BLOCKHEAD!! BONK [hitting head] / AGH… / [detective watching behind door] YIKES…DID HE WAKE UP?
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.