—used to express strong feeling (such as pleasure or surprise)
wowed; wowing; wows
: to excite to enthusiastic admiration or approval
a performance that wowed the critics
: a distortion in reproduced sound consisting of a slow rise and fall of pitch caused by speed variation in the reproducing system
Examples of wow in a Sentence
Verb
Her performance wowed the critics.
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Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
There is, of course, the wow factor of having Puck who, besides his culinary empire does the food for the Governors Ball, involved.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
The supermodel wows in an all white look including and oversize sunglasses.
—Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
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Interjection
Tries a first flight from the escarpment, a learner breeze across the valley, and realises – wow!
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
Smoking your cocktails will give you the wow factor that ensures every get-together will be memorable.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
There is, of course, the wow factor of having Puck who, besides his culinary empire does the food for the Governors Ball, involved.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
She’s wowed by a theater production about climate change in Brazil—a moment where Daldry and Martin send up expensive German theater—and has an epiphany at a temple in Kyoto (meditative music is provided by Paul Englishby).
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2025
The supermodel wows in an all white look including and oversize sunglasses.
—Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Wow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wow. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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