oomph

Example Sentences

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Craig is on the bench and offers plenty of oomph.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

The first-round of the playoffs usually produces a bunch of mismatches that lack oomph.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

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

I DO press the tea bag to extract more "oomph" from it and this is a big no-no for some who believe it will make your tea bitter.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2024

“Just a bit of oomph needed to get through an impossible situation.”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas