va-voom

Example Sentences

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I’m already eager for his return as Orest in Strauss’s “Elektra” this fall, another Zambello production — and one that requires far more va-voom than we got on Saturday.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2022

“So wonderful” to Marina Diamandis of Marina and the Diamonds, whose bubble-gummy va-voom had almost enough quirk to resemble personality.

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2015

It adds a definitive note of calculated va-voom.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2011

Instead, they conduct an 85-piece orchestra through the drifts and swells practically necessary to give the film's various fight scenes, chase scenes and fight-slash-chase scenes the requisite va-voom.

From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2010