Example sentences for: interjection

How can you use “interjection” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The interjection word wau (Wow!) can be heard on radio or television.

  • Foot as an interjection expressing irritation (“Oh, foot, I've lost my glasses again”) is a Southernism first recorded in a 1953 issue of The New Yorker . It might originally be from the obsolete interjection Christ's foot!

  • On stage, every character, every prop, every interjection has a precise symbolic function; on film, those elements no longer stand out in relief.

  • Cotgrave has:— Deâ , an interjection, as Dâ, ouy de^ [the circumflex over the a is not mine, but Cotgrave's], yes, truly, verily, without doubt also, a tearme of expostulation [note this]; as deâ, qui vous mouvoit ?

  • His examples show that it was sometimes preceded by the interjection he [illegible character] as Hé, dia! or Hé! dea , which is suggestive of the English phrase.


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