oomph

Example Sentences

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Baker's fire would add some much-needed oomph to an England team that had too many introverts for the heat of an Ashes battle in Australia.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Combine their buy the dip, chase the rip behavior with professional investors like commodity trading advisers who already followed momentum strategies, and bounces have a lot more oomph these days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Mookie Betts put some oomph on the end of the Dodgers’ arm-waving, hip-shaking, hit celebration.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025

But part of me wondered if Shapiro, in even a subconscious way, was putting an extra bit of oomph into his show as a way of saying “This is what you could have had.”

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2024

Murray came later has more oomph than Later came Murray.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner