oh
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"And then he stopped and I thought, oh now, now he's gonna pull himself together and say something more appropriate," Earl Spencer said.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He’s sneering, which is bad enough, but now, oh boy, he does the Thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
But, oh, how easy the curse’s persistence makes it to retread all those familiar plot beats, the same ones that have been removed from their context and posted to death for the last decade.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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
Then I shake it again and oh man, here comes that sting in the nose and behind the eyes.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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
Their "oh's" and "ah's" were genuine as they looked at the two rooms; the numbers were about equally divided between those who preferred the restful room and those who preferred the fussy and gaudy one.
From Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed
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
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
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
The guys let out a chorus of ohs and pounded one another.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
