oomph

Example Sentences

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Craig is on the bench and offers plenty of oomph.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

It can be stirred gently or with a bit more oomph.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

Mookie Betts put some oomph on the end of the Dodgers’ arm-waving, hip-shaking, hit celebration.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025

But part of me wondered if Shapiro, in even a subconscious way, was putting an extra bit of oomph into his show as a way of saying “This is what you could have had.”

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2024

They haven’t the oomph to escape Earth’s gravity and, even if they did, there are no mechanisms to guide them across tens of millions of miles of space.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson