oh
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He didn’t choose to go for it on fourth-and-7 with 7:15 to play — oh wait, actually, yeah, that one’s on Riley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
But, oh, how easy the curse’s persistence makes it to retread all those familiar plot beats, the same ones that have been removed from their context and posted to death for the last decade.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
We’ve also been told we can have it all: carefully developed careers, balanced retirement accounts, a thriving social life in which plans actually make it out of the group chat—and, oh, by the way, fertility.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
"That's when I went, oh, there's something more here," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Luckily, Penelope knew not to say the name of the Scottish play, as Simon— oh!
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
The oh’s and ah’s from my sisters were wonderful to hear.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
But Ivan Nikiforovitch dropped into a chair, and could utter no word beyond prolonged oh's.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
O--oh Smith,"--nearly all Gholson's oh's were groans--"why is he here?
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
Their "oh's" and "ah's" were genuine as they looked at the two rooms; the numbers were about equally divided between those who preferred the restful room and those who preferred the fussy and gaudy one.
From Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed
Presently here were the merry burden-bearers behind their radiant guide, whispered ah's and oh's and wary laughter abounding.
From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball
There were repeated "oohs," "ahhs," "ohs" and other vocalizings that reminded us just how remarkable an instrument the pliant Plant voice remains, even as he approaches turning 70 in August.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2018
Ocean says he spent weeks working on just the vocal tone of the four "ohs" that open the track.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
She shouts her way through bits and sings along to the tune, voice soaring into the almost screamed oh oh ohs.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2011
Her multitracked vocals appear first, in a waft of elfin ahs and ohs, before she starts a syncopated bass line, digging hard into a groove.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2010
Her accent wasn’t perfect, a little too long on the ohs and too tight in the back of the throat, but it was really quite good.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
