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Recent Examples of ooh
Interjection
If the long track record of Hawk-Eye used during tennis matches is a guide, fans are more than willing to ooh and ahh in excitement at a digital representation of a ball on a giant screen.—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2025 This three-pack is suitable for folks with larger homes (ooh, look at you).—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
Vance’s Best Friend, the Canadian Politician, Has No Comment
Her ooh’s and ahh’s draw Shipp over, gears already turning.—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2025 When Yoda did come through the entrance with shelter volunteer Linda Miller, there were cheers and oohs and aahs at the sight of the bundle of energy.—Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
By the same token, the stars assembled to deliver statuettes into the hands of their fellow stars were worth oohing and aahing over.—Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025 The emotion inside the building was impossible to ignore, the crowd oohing and aahing at every crossover, gasping at every shot and desperately trying to will the ball into the basket each time a Laker launched it.—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ooh
That mute minute in an otherwise ever-bobbing, ever-shouting crowd (a portion of which camped outside the Spectrum Center) was a testament to Eilish’s ability to hold her own on a stage that — other than the occasional burst of fire and blitzing lights — had little frill.
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Julia Coin,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Oct. 2025
Climate was barely mentioned, though scientists have been studying and shouting about its relevance in worsening wildfires for years.
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