—used to express strong feeling (such as pleasure or surprise)
wowed; wowing; wows
: to excite to enthusiastic admiration or approval
a performance that wowed the critics
: a distortion in reproduced sound consisting of a slow rise and fall of pitch caused by speed variation in the reproducing system
Examples of wow in a Sentence
Verb
Her performance wowed the critics.
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The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025
Oh, wow, Carrie has won the right to text her boyfriend in an emergency.
—Emma Bocchi, Vogue, 6 June 2025
Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 10 June 2025
These Amazon tech deals are built for comfort, convenience, and a little bit of wow factor.
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
Nick Caruso, TVLine, 6 June 2025
The Context Last year's Wicked, a spin-off of the Wizard of Oz, wowed both fans and critics, earning $756 million at the box office worldwide.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
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Interjection
But the true wow moment came from a coat of Sherwin-Williams’s Nugget, inspired by a shade in some fabric in an adjacent room.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025
Oh, wow, Carrie has won the right to text her boyfriend in an emergency.
—Emma Bocchi, Vogue, 6 June 2025
Noun
This pair is petite, just like Khloé’s oldest sister Kourtney, and has small dangly crystals that have their own wow factor.
—Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 10 June 2025
These Amazon tech deals are built for comfort, convenience, and a little bit of wow factor.
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 4 June 2025
Verb
But his imprisonment isn’t the only wowing change Patience is facing.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 6 June 2025
The Context Last year's Wicked, a spin-off of the Wizard of Oz, wowed both fans and critics, earning $756 million at the box office worldwide.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
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“Wow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wow. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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