onomatopoetic

And sound effects are hard to render, as Japanese brims with onomatopoetic words that don’t exist in English.

Reading a later volume of Proust amid a breakup, I filled the margins with uncomfortable ellipses, onomatopoetic groans and little else.

This track is brash and mid-1980s boombox-ready, built on onomatopoetic, pitch-shifted vocal syllables that double as percussion and drums that sound like exploding balloons — well aware of how brittle every sound can be.

Across an avalanche of pages written in that famously onomatopoetic style, Wolfe might have given us “A Tan in Full.”

It almost sounds onomatopoetic, like a sled whooshing down an icy track.