Example sentences for: interjection

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

  • Duh , an interjection indicating stupidity or obviousness, emerged from 1940s animated cartoons, but its period of greatest efflorescence is probably occurring right now.

  • Compounding native English words or elements produces all classes of combinations—noun: farmhouse ; verb: understand ; adjective: twenty-one ; adverb: herewith ; preposition: into ; pronoun: someone ; conjunction: because ; interjection: good grief . It is also a gradual process, as evidenced by the sequence of to day, to-day, today .

  • [Anglo-Australian] Interjection, verb . Negative reply to an unwelcome suggestion.

  • 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.

  • 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!


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