How To Use Onomatopoeic In A Sentence
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A quick investigation reveals that a similar word, pengö (an onomatopoeic term for ringing or twanging), was the unit of currency in Hungary before the forint was introduced.
Data is data, or are they?
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Pop", "boom" and "squelch" are onomatopoeic words.
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Guaa is the onomatopoeic name for macaw and obi (or hovy) describes a colour between blue and green.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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In the silent film, allied to the onomatopoeic imitation of sound was the expectation of sound where there was none.
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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
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My own interest in Bethlem and madness came from a number of sources; the onomatopoeic clangour of the word Bedlam itself, suggesting an infernal din, like a bedstead falling downstairs, somehow echoed in the vast Victorian asylum near my childhood home, and its noisy but harmless residents, who occasionally spilled out into the streets, weeping and shouting.
Bedlam
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Gasa-gasa is also an onomatopoeic word for "rustle" or "rustling sound." gasagasagirl on November 01, 2006 in Naomi Hirahara | Permalink
November 2006
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But here more than anywhere I remember lost times, lost chances, lost friends, with the sweet tristesse that is onomatopoeic to the place.
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Guaa is the onomatopoeic name for macaw and obi (or hovy) describes a colour between blue and green.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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He is the most onomatopoeic of the leading poets, able to imitate the sounds of everything from bird calls to the eerie noise of cracking ice.
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I suspect the impatiently onomatopoeic qualities of the word confused him.
Kalooki Nights
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There are some items missing: surely, if susurrar is onomatopoeic Spanish for rustle, the English equivalents, susurration, susurrant, susurrous, and susurrus should be shown.
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Bang and pop are onomatopoeic words.
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onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises
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The Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French "Conter fleurette", which means "to (try to) seduce" by the dropping of flower leaves, that is, "to speak sweet nothings".
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Genre names don't get more onomatopoeic than crunk.
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The word is onomatopoeic, and he may in fact have coined it to distinguish his own impediment, for he is said to have had a kind of stammer or lisp.
Knotted Tongues
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The development of a ball made out of celluloid was a breakthrough, and led to the onomatopoeic baptism of the game.
Play Ball!
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Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (protonym, Ardea Nycticorax), also known as the American/common night heron, the quawk or quark (an onomatopoeic term) or simply as the night heron, photographed at Texas City Dike, Texas (USA).
Mystery bird: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax
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And onomatopoeic epizeuxis (say that three times fast!) is often laughable.
Siris
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Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (protonym, Ardea Nycticorax), also known as the American/common night heron, the quawk or quark (an onomatopoeic term) or simply as the night heron, photographed at Texas City Dike, Texas (USA).
Mystery bird: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax
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Words of uncertain origin but with a distinct onomatopoeic element include: birl to whirl, daud a thump or lump, dunt a thump, sclaff to slap, skrauch and skreich to shriek, wheech to move in a rush, yatter to chatter.
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Pop", "boom" and "squelch" are onomatopoeic words.
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Often it stems from his words, which, as in a misspelled grocery sign or an onomatopoeic utterance, appear both everyday and incorrect.
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Guaa is the onomatopoeic name for macaw and obi (or hovy) describes a colour between blue and green.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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This onomatopoeic word suggests to me the sound a mousetrap makes when it snaps shut.
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Genre names don't get more onomatopoeic than crunk.
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Cough, pronounced coff, is onomatopoeic in origin, from the sound of the closure of the glottis plus the sound of air whizzing or wheezing through the trachea.
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The onomatopoeic tune that resulted was hilarious, but the implication that in a digital universe all correspondences are known in advance was rather disturbing.
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It's the Japanese onomatopoeic sound (what they hear) when you something that's soft and jiggly.
Ham!
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Since the minute the goudou-goudou the onomatopoeic name locals give to the earthquake made the ground shake and groan, more than 230,000 people have died and about 1.5 million have lost their homes in Port-au-Prince and the nearby cities of Léogâne, Jacmel and Petit-Goâve.
Haiti earthquake charities blamed as scars fail to heal
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Both syllable construction and phrasing function inherit and develop onomatopoeic of Yuanqu, and showed clear age special features of live.
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Building her account around key verbs, which she would both act out while she spoke and express in onomatopoeic rhythms and tones that (re) produced history even as she uttered it, Cufassane gave the impression that she was an expert potter even though she had never made a pot in her life.
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