uh-oh

Example Sentences

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Now that you’re ready to go, uh oh, your cell service is bad.

From Fox News • Jan. 2, 2022

And then realizing uh oh — I . . . need to back off.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021

“Candyman” — uh, oh, how many times has his name been typed by now? — is an unusual horror movie set in the luxury lofts and haughty art world of Chicago.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2021

Then again, clowns can be storm clouds, early warning signals that something’s disturbingly funny — funny ha ha and funny uh oh.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2020

And now everyone from Ivy League Nobel Prize winners to former Treasury Secretaries to former heads of the Federal Reserve--"respected" economists all--are having their "uh oh" moments, one by one.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2016