How to Use ooh in a Sentence

ooh

1 of 2 interjection
  • So my heart stopped, like, ooh, that’s a tough one.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 2 Jan. 2026
  • This one looks like a flashy play — ooh, look, a fancy crossover!
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Mar. 2022
  • This three-pack is suitable for folks with larger homes (ooh, look at you).
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Boil peas, dress with an herbal vinaigrette, and ooh and aah over all the flavor.
    — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 7 May 2026
  • In total, there will be 18 wild new costumes to ooh, ahh, and scream at this season.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Guests will ooh and aah over this gorgeous DIY autumn porch decor.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • And then those of us down here ooh and aah because, honestly, meteors are a lot of fun to watch.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
  • There are new things to climb, newborns to ooh and aah over and new locations in the works at Gatorland these days.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The tiny stall has become a beloved stop for locals and travelers alike, who ooh and ahh at every single pie that comes out of the back.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
  • In front of us lay quite a few small-to-mid-capacity engines being built, but there was one that all journos ooh-ed and aaah-ed over.
    — New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The public can enter for free after that to ooh and aah over the trees and wreaths, get a photo with Santa, and do holiday crafts.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2023
  • All accompany the contortionist, trapeze and tightrope circus classics that spectators young and old have come to ooh and aah at.
    — Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • During meteor showers, Earthlings ooh and aah over bits of rock that have broken off comets or asteroids as the travel around the sun.
    — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Brownback, naturally, promised to veto the measure because ooh, taxes bad!
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 June 2017
  • Everyone will run to the starboard side and ooh and ahh together, snapping photos and generally having a jolly good time.
    — Rebecca Deurlein, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • At the bridal shop, were Noles, Swarts, Nist’s daughter and daughter-in-law and Turner’s daughters were on hand to ooh and aww.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2024
  • This caused a great clamor of approval, and a modicum of tepid ooh-la-la disapproval by the folks who actually approved but who were too cowardly to say so, back in the day.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Le Mini Macaron’s summer collection includes fun little details like hearts, smiley faces, and phrases like ooh la la.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Online, fans are thrilled to share their luck-of-the-draw so far, and ooh and aah over the rare pulls that some Trader Joe’s buyers have scored—like the elusive Peanut Bag.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
  • If that feeling describes you right now, Netflix has a new movie that will totally strike your fancy (while also providing some super beautiful scenic shots for you to ooh and aah over).
    — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • One particularly dedicated fan — a young Taiwanese woman — visits every year or so, to ooh and ah at the new additions to the collection.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Videos will accompany the costumes, so visitors can see how costumes appeared onstage and on-screen, and also ooh over the A-list actors who wore them, Carlano said.
    — Cristina Bolling, charlotteobserver, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Xezal had long grown accustomed to her position in society and enjoyed the way her neighbours would ooh and aah over a new garment her dressmaker had sewn, a new bracelet that the goldsmith had made especially for her.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • With each new photo shoot and red carpet event, the actor delivers breathtaking moments that will oftentimes go viral on the internet, causing folks to ooh and aah at her outfits, hair, and makeup.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The leads can be overwrought, shouting lines across the stage while the Gothic-style doorways, sharp directional lighting and ooh-ahh practical effects do their complicated dance.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 4 June 2026
  • It’s specially formulated with soothing ingredients like thermal water from the French Alps (ooh la la), glycerin, and manuka honey.
    — L.a. Hubilla, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • So suggest a mutually interesting spot that has something for both of you — sun, a low-level language barrier, but enough ooh/ahh factor of foreign fasciation to whet his wandering whistle for future adventures.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2022
  • In the cavernous convention hall, attendees cast ballots for local garden clubs’ intricate floral arrangements, and ooh and aah at large-scale landscape installations put on by garden companies that have trucked in dirt for the occasion.
    — Riley Robinson, Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2025
  • If your Valentine is the type to ooh and ahh over historical documents, History by Mail offers them a monthly delivery of a new document replicated by a graphic designer.
    — Buy Side Staff, wsj.com, 10 Jan. 2024

ooh

2 of 2 verb
  • But all the women around us who saw me on one knee were oohing and ahhing.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 18 July 2017
  • The studio audience oohed, whooped and laughed, and the show went on.
    — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The crowd gathered to watch, oohing and aahing at the glowing barrel as it was lifted up.
    — Hadley Green, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • One big part of a baby shower is opening gifts (and ooh-ing and ahh-ing over all those tiny clothes).
    — Brie Dyas, Country Living, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The music will start playing, the rockets will start glaring, the crowd will start oohing and ahhing.
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2017
  • Everyone oohed and aahed and cleared the way for them as if in the presence of true royalty.
    — Kate Storey, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Even in the Cleveland gym, the crowd oohed as Grady coolly stepped back and sunk a three pointer.
    — Mitchell Forde, oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Houston hosted the world weight lifting championships last year. The sport’s greatest athletes, many Olympians among them, hoisted staggering amounts of weight above their heads, and the fans there oohed and aahed.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 19 May 2016
  • Pat Schroeder and some of her friends were oohing and aahing over this guy — and at his prospects in national politics.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
  • And not just the people in the room, though there was a lot of air-kissing and oohing about outfits going on over the chicken potpies.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Your deep freezer is not on display for anyone to ooh and ahh over so think about functionality over design.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Guests passed around their silver so everyone could see the full range, and as each dish was served, oohed and ahhed over the wide variety of pieces.
    — Stephanie Wu, Town & Country, 13 June 2014
  • His family poured into the bright, clean space, oohing and ahhing at the three-bedroom, single-wide trailer.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • So many of us remember sitting somewhere on a blanket oohing and aahing over awesome light shows bursting overhead.
    — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 28 June 2023
  • By the same token, the stars assembled to deliver statuettes into the hands of their fellow stars were worth oohing and aahing over.
    — Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
  • After the crowd oohed its appreciation for the gesture, all those decades ago, Curtis moved to wrap things up.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 May 2025
  • Any guests will ooh and aah over their striking color and sophisticated stoneware construction.
    — Grace Smith, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Competitors trotted down a green carpet while spectators oohed and aahed and the judges jotted notes onto their score sheets.
    — Travis Deshong, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • On May 30, the pop singer shared pictures of her nails in an Instagram carousel for her millions of fans to ooh and aah over.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 31 May 2022
  • He’s met by the sound of contestants oohing while, presumably, Mike White attempts to run away from filming on the spot.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Our interns audibly oohed and aahed as the show began, helping explain the perfect rating.
    — Sacbee.com, 28 June 2026
  • Fireworks will be launched from four spots across Albuquerque so that people can ooh and aah from home instead of gathering in a single place.
    — John Seewer, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2020
  • Everyone oohs and aahs over this development, but Mu Hee just looks at Hiro and sighs.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Parents oohed and aahed as Jody Worth, the upper school director, ushered them through the campus.
    — Emmanuel Felton, NBC News, 17 June 2018
  • Inside, oblivious tourists from across Japan oohed and aahed as dolphins performed tricks for fish to cheesy rock music, and children lined up to stroke them.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • We all ooh and ahh over the (at least in my memory) huge lights and decorations that illuminate every house and the snow that blankets each lawn along our drive.
    — Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2021
  • On Thursday, families waiting for flights oohed and aahed at the vast marble floors and glass walls and took selfies in a landscaped picnic park.
    — Washington Post, 4 May 2018
  • The pristine pantry in her Los Angeles home made headlines earlier this year as fans oohed and aahed over the custom set-up.
    — Caroline Picard, House Beautiful, 8 June 2017
  • By the time the World Series rolled around, no one was talking about his off-field issue, but many were oohing and aahing over his 103 mph fastball.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Even Eichorn, who should be entirely too jaded by now to fully appreciate the aerial antics of a tarpon, would ooh and aah with each leap.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 17 Aug. 2017

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