Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oohs
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Bernardo Silva, possibly Guardiola’s favourite ever player according to some close to him, is still known as ‘Bernardiki’ around the dressing room, even among new players, because that is what Guardiola called him two years ago, during one of his regularly strange training-session exclamations.
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The deck is silent but for the clicking of cameras and the low buzz of exclamations as a new set of lights appear.
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If a street preacher shouts their sermon into a bullhorn on a public street, and a nearby business owner calls the police, who is in the right?
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Sirens, horns, and shouts to evacuate rang out in the West Bottoms and along Southwest Boulevard all morning, but the speed of the flooding still caught everyone off guard.
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But Weitz’s scratches of synth and interjections of hurdy-gurdy—the instrument at the heart of his solo debut—complicate the surface-level beauty.
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Two people were arrested for disrupting the meeting with anti-CoreCivic interjections.
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Up in the stands, fans waved their own flags — including some sneaked in over the objections of FIFA and the courts — and wrestled with emotions, as boos, howls and hisses rained down from all corners of the stadium.
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Roaring and grunting, his body sleek with blood and sweat, Conan tussles and grapples with a series of opponents, dominating them all, while an audience of torch-wielding vulgarians shouts and howls at the pit’s lip.
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The Blackhawks dressing room was a rowdy scene after the game, their hoots and hollers reverberating throughout the bowels of the United Center.
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Cowboy and cowgirl hoots and hollers complement the rumbling of the massive animals’ hooves as they’re rounded up into the corrals.
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But if there is no clear-eyed accounting and address of the specific and systemic failings that led to so much loss last July 4, what happens the next time a flood roars through Texas Hill Country?
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.
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“Oohs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oohs. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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