How To Use Interjection In A Sentence

  • Not long after the rage-tastic clip was posted online, a shady character by the name of "RevoLucian" posted "Bale Out — RevoLucian's Christian Bale Remix" on YouTube, a techno-ripping, demonic dance party in which Bale's berating is repeated ad nauseam under pictures of the actor and random f-bomb interjections from Barbra Streisand. You Can Now Dance To The Sound Of Christian Bale’s Fury » MTV Movies Blog
  • Bearing in mind the way in which human interjections baffle the average writer, we cannot be surprised at the poor success that crowns the endeavours of the naturalist to syllabise bird notes. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • As well as being finely crafted there is a unifying mood that reaches a peak in an expressive pedal point, sustained dissonance in the horns with side drum interjections, preparing for a pensive conclusion.
  • Puccini's genius for the dramatic undercurrent, often heard in bold brass interjections, heightened the tension throughout.
  • Conversely, the interjection of an apology into this situation yields several ameliorative results.
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  • There could have been an overtone of mockery in Romira's interjection. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • A manuscript I'm editing uses "for Christ sake" in dialogue as an interjection, which is fine in the context, but I can't find a decent reference for the most common spelling. Ianrandalstrock's Journal
  • I had indicated to the Committee that frivolous interjections designed to break up speeches were out of order.
  • These dogs, when they spring into one's consciousness, are likely to bark out interjections such as, ‘What, ho!’
  • It is manifested rather in the exercise of a familiar yet unique utterance, an interjection that emerges at the limits of grammar and reference: the word heil, as in Heil Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
  • In this particular case A.S. WILS.N, whose contributions to debate are exclusively interjectionary, would be cut off from the exercise of a talent that frequently enlivens a sitting. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914
  • In English, conjunctions, determiners, interjections, particles, and pronouns are grammatical words.
  • Firstly, any member on this side of the House would be happy to advise you who made the interjection.
  • For a start there was a large number of interjections in the second person, which I presume related to me.
  • When a person asking a question chooses to make an unnecessary and offensive remark, he is inviting an interjection at that point.
  • Two interjections from the rapt audience render the visiting 28-year-old former pupil particularly speechless.
  • As the interjection is the least important part of speech in the English language, it will require but little attention. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
  • Her controversial speech was punctuated with noisy interjections from the audience.
  • Our usual interjection again to a sedulous hosts, Messrs. Friedman, Madeira as good as Pope. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • When they did at length break silence, it was in short interjectional remarks, as they resumed the oars. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
  • He was smart and funny, but increasingly frustrated with my interjections.
  • Hey!" is an interjection.
  • In a 1930 song called “Memphis Flu,” Elder David R. Curry, pastor of the Oakley Street Church of God in Christ, and his congregation sing over barrelhouse piano runs, hand claps, and interjections of “Praise Jesus!” FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
  • There will be no further interjections during the member's speech by members of the Labour Party, or they will leave the Chamber.
  • Her controversial speech was punctuated with noisy interjections from the audience.
  • Wilson issued a statement of apology after the speech, saying he had "let my emotions get the best of me" and calling his interjection "inappropriate and regrettable. Undefined
  • Cedric went on with his story without noticing this interjectional observation of his friend. Ivanhoe
  • He would not allow any more interjections on this matter.
  • It was an unnecessary interjection but Kemp gave her a polite affirmation. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • I heard two interjections during that question.
  • The interjection is a word used in cries of pain, anger, sorrow, calling, &c. Our Own Primary Grammar for the Use of Beginners.
  • The other gang members offered their own absurd interjections, but otherwise paid close attention to their leader's speech.
  • At the forum's height, it was not unknown for twenty or thirty meetings to proceed simultaneously, each speaker conducting a passionate, unamplified declamation, often punctuated by interjections and jeers.
  • I chalk it up to a slip of the tongue, perhaps due to overeagerness on McClellan's part to make an interjection.
  • Well I'm thinking of creating a different version of the interjections video and replacing it with the word integration and changing the chorus to something like, "Integration shows you get it, are not clueless, is generally done by very few companies, even though their customers say they want it. Forbes.com: News
  • Bearing in mind the way in which human interjections baffle the average writer, we cannot be surprised at the poor success that crowns the endeavours of the naturalist to syllabise bird notes.
  • Occasionally em appears as an interjection, an onomatopoeic murmur equivalent to erm or um, while in HTML it italicizes text. Read ‘em and write ‘em
  • -- yahoo as a noun dates to Swift's book in 1726; yahoo as an interjection (synonym for "yippee") dates to 1870. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • I could fall in love habitually with my own eclectic stream of verbs and interjections and clauses.
  • The former deputy chief said that the reason for his interjection is his "concern" and SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • The question-begging leap of logic here is Posner's interjection of "since," when dealing with the connection between the what's known as the prefatory and operative clauses of the 2nd Amendment. Judge Richard A. Posner on the D.C. guns case (Heller): "In Defense of Looseness."
  • English Professor Leland Ryken, in his recent book The Legacy of the King James Bible, identified four distinctive prose styles characteristic of the KJV: noun-of-noun constructions men of strength rather than strong men, woman of Samaria rather than Samaritan woman, interjections such as lo and behold to call attention to something important, the intensifying word verily and frequent and repeated use of the conjunction 'and.' Roy M. Pitkin: The King James Bible: 400 And Going Strong
  • He then spoke with extreme volubility, but it was only a succession of onomatopoeias devoid of sense, of harsh interjections with _a_ and _ou_ predominant, as in the majority of Polynesian idioms. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
  • In English, conjunctions, determiners, interjections, particles, and pronouns are grammatical words.
  • The novel is studded with gems of images, brief and evocative, describing her mother's interjections into her thoughts.
  • Big interjection as great as keep kickin fuckin donkey UniWatch. Archive 2009-12-01
  • This is back bedroom electronica at its best, full of big chunky breakbeats, Radiophonic Workshop bleepy things and dirty vocoder interjections.
  • “And Effie? — and Effie, dear father?” was an eager interjectional question which Jeanie repeatedly threw in among her expressions of joyful thankfulness. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • I laughed at their jokes, acknowledging their comments with interjections of approval.
  • I ruled out vociferous interjections, and Mr Mallard was more restrained after he was warned.
  • They are learning about tolerance, about biculturalism and multiculturalism, about how to train for jobs, about how to broaden their minds, and about how make worthwhile interjections that are intelligible.
  • There were some interjections in the second person that were not very savoury.
  • Perry. he was gone a long time before he come back with him. doctor Perry he took a look at me and sed poison ivory, so he got it did he. then he felt of my stomack and looked at by tung and felt my pulce and heard me grone and gave me a dose of castor oil and then he took out a little popsquirt the litlest i ever see and he sed i gess i shall have to give you a subteranian interjection. i thougt a interjection was a part of speach like alas and o and ah. ennyway that is what the grammar says. but this wasent that kind for the docter run the sharp point of that little popsquert whitch was jest as sharp as a needle rite into my arm. it hurt like time and i hollered but after he had pulled it out i began to feel kind of lite and floty and the ferst i gnew the pane was gone and i dident know nothing more. well the next morning i felt a little beter but not enuf to get up and not enuf to eat but after a while Brite and Fair
  • I say to members that Mr Sowry is making a hard-hitting speech, and some interjections can be expected, but not so many as to drown out the member speaking.
  • It was an unnecessary interjection but Kemp gave her a polite affirmation. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • These lucid scientific interjections compensate rewardingly for the book's relatively weak cultural sense.
  • Her controversial speech was punctuated with noisy interjections from the audience.
  • But if members are having difficulty following the speech because of the interjections, then I thank the member for raising that matter.
  • Here, the primal "O" or "ah" of subapostrophic interjection seems hidden in the very principle of duration, as hypostasized in the appositional "one God, one law," and then taken up in chiastic echo within the effortless tip-toe alliteration of the chiastic Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • The buildups and the interjections seem so well choreographed; it kills a little bit of the wonder.
  • So saying, and summing up the whole with a provoking wink, and such an interjectional tchick as men quicken a dull horse with, Petit Andre drew off to the other side of the path, and left the youth to digest the taunts he had treated him with, as his proud Scottish stomach best might. Quentin Durward
  • My colleague John Key interjects with the best interjection of all.
  • Two significant categories, of course - an article lacking interjections and pronouns, for example, would not pack the punch of one without any nouns or verbs.
  • I am obviously apologetic for interrupting my colleague, but the interjection that Mr Hide shouted out across the Chamber was highly offensive.
  • Mark Liberman has an interesting post over at Language Log about the spelling of interjections and onomatopoetic words in comic strips.
  • So please stop trying to make me into your own personal straw man to knock over and then scoff at with little snidey remarks and condescending interjections. TEXAS FAITH: Glenn Beck and the culture of fear | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • The word jigging is all Nelson’s, or would be if not for Nick’s interjection that unfortunately misses the point that PZ makes quite clearly. Yet another reason Paul Nelson is extremely silly - The Panda's Thumb
  • There could have been an overtone of mockery in Romira's interjection. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • But the wounded feelings and the timidity of Joan of France rendered her incapable of an effort to make the conversation more general; and at length, excepting a few interjectional civilities of the Lady Quentin Durward
  • One suggestion I would make is that the sense of ouai doesn't seem judgmental, as "reckoning" would imply that there will be a reckoning upon you (and there's no indication that the interjection is present progressive or gerundial), but purely interjectory along the lines of "poor you. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • I had a continual barrage of interjections - quite contrary to the speech of the Minister, to whom we gave a pretty fair hearing.
  • (An interjection here: my wife awoke, scared by an evil dream. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
  • I am working on a book about the parts of speech - that's right, nouns, verbs, interjections and all the rest.
  • So much humour now revolves around smut and the constant interjection of the f-word and other expletives.
  • These disconcerting interjections of human speech into an otherwise depopulated realm help illuminate an ambiguous statement about technology in Omit's work.
  • Other problems of fluency may also characterize stuttering, including blocking of sounds or interjection of words or sounds.
  • But the more drunk she got the more constant her interjections became and the less actual material the comics were able to do.
  • (An interjection here: my wife awoke, scared by an evil dream. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
  • Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end, except blots, were inadequate to afford her any relief. David Copperfield
  • Sting clearly finds this material humorous, touching, compelling, but the interjection of no fewer than seven spoken-word soliloquies makes 'Songs From the Labyrinth' feel like a formal night at the theater, rather than illuminating the warm, human composer Sting sees in Dowland. Songs From The Labyrinth
  • It is certainly difficult to play, not only for the pianist and orchestra – who must continually wrestle with dense, muddy scoring – but also the piano itself, which barely survived the final cadenza, the muscular Denis Matsuev's assault on the instrument egged on by Bacchic interjections from woodwind and brass. Matsuev/LSO/Gergiev
  • The greater part of his attention was, of course, still engrossed by his divine inimitable Discretion, as he chose to term Mary Avenel; but, nevertheless there were interjectional flourishes to the Maid of the Mill, under the title of Comely Damsel, and to the Dame, under that of Worthy The Monastery
  • Those interjections were very reasonable, and the Minister was simply putting on an act to try to get some sympathy.
  • I'd provide interjections such as ‘uh huh’, ‘ahh okay’ and ‘rightey oh then’.
  • Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. The Egoist
  • Two interjections from the rapt audience render the visiting 28-year-old former pupil particularly speechless.
  • As often as they are guilty of interpolating meaningless interjections into their speech, thus giving their hearers the impression that they are saying a great deal more because they are talking a great deal more (or, perhaps by talking more, albeit saying less, they create the illusion that their limited vocabularies are capable of more expression, if not more expressiveness), speakers also tend to apocopate the language. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2
  • When it is on its own and used to express an emotion, I chose an equivalent interjection in French: for example, Ça alors!
  • I want members, particularly those on the front bench, to address interjections other than in the second person.
  • Having arrived at this comfortable frame of mind (to which she had been greatly assisted by certain short interjectional remarks of the philosophical George), Mrs Jarley consoled Nell with many kind words, and requested as a personal favour that whenever she thought of Miss The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Since I have been on my feet I have faced a continuous barrage of interjections.
  • The interjection was her customary specific for the cure of these little tricks of her blood. Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
  • I remind the Minister that interjections are disorderly at all times.
  • Like the English hail (as in “Hail to the Chief”), the German interjection comes from the Old Norse word for whole Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist
  • Having arrived at this comfortable frame of mind (to which she had been greatly assisted by certain short interjectional remarks of the philosophical George), Mrs. Jarley consoled Nell with many kind words, and requested as a personal favour that whenever she thought of Miss Monflathers, she would do nothing else but laugh at her, all the days of her life. Old Curiosity Shop
  • Cope is derailed by enthusiastic interjections from proprietary fans and the show lurches from one interruption to another.

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