oh
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"And Josh is bringing the humour. I know it's come with some criticism. But last week was the first week that I felt, oh, these two are actually funny."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Then the autocue stalled and the SNP leader is heard saying under his breath "oh, come on".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
It was a “classic sort of rose-colored glasses, ‘We thought, oh, the potential market’s huge,’ but in retrospect it wasn’t,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“My brother is the other caregiver, and he’s a lot more sensitive. I’m just like, oh, no, you need me. I’m going to make sure you’re OK,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Descants can have text, but are also sung on neutral syllables such as oh, or ah.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
The oh’s and ah’s from my sisters were wonderful to hear.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
But Ivan Nikiforovitch dropped into a chair, and could utter no word beyond prolonged oh's.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
I have to confess that some even of the most famous books on the Passion are to me intolerably tedious, because they are written, so to speak, in oh's and ah's.
From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by James Stalker
O--oh Smith,"--nearly all Gholson's oh's were groans--"why is he here?
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
And down she tumbled on the floor, and sang, since there was nothing to be said, round ah's and oh's.
From Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
There were repeated "oohs," "ahhs," "ohs" and other vocalizings that reminded us just how remarkable an instrument the pliant Plant voice remains, even as he approaches turning 70 in August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2018
Ocean says he spent weeks working on just the vocal tone of the four "ohs" that open the track.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
She shouts her way through bits and sings along to the tune, voice soaring into the almost screamed oh oh ohs.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2011
Her multitracked vocals appear first, in a waft of elfin ahs and ohs, before she starts a syncopated bass line, digging hard into a groove.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2010
Her accent wasn’t perfect, a little too long on the ohs and too tight in the back of the throat, but it was really quite good.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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