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

As she tells it, the special oomph that soy sauce adds to a bake is, in a word, umami.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

It was cheerful and rhymed but lacked oomph.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2025

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