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oh

[oh] / oʊ /
INTERJECTION
(expression of surprise)
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“Uh oh, am I about to spend $1,999 on a phone?”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

"Eventually you think, oh, how many more combinations of a stripe can I do?" he admits, before adding, "But so far so good."

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

It’s a one-track, single-minded way of thinking, eerily reminiscent of, oh, I don’t know, a hungry coyote blindly pursuing a roadrunner.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

We’ve also been told we can have it all: carefully developed careers, balanced retirement accounts, a thriving social life in which plans actually make it out of the group chat—and, oh, by the way, fertility.

From Slate Aug. 29, 2026

“Little girl!”—the very words he had used to Lucy, and oh, but he proved himself a friend!

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

The oh’s and ah’s from my sisters were wonderful to hear.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Presently here were the merry burden-bearers behind their radiant guide, whispered ah's and oh's and wary laughter abounding.

From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball

The oh’s and ah’s and exclamations of approval, resultant of fairy cocktails, rewarded Beatrice for her expenditure.

From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

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

It was not spoken freely in words, merely in gestures and little ejaculatory "ah's," "oh's," and "too bad's"; but it was soothing to Dic, and sweet Miss Tousy gained a lifelong friend.

From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Charles Major

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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