Example sentences for: onomatopoeia

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

  • In fact, the amount of back-formed onomatopoeia devoted to sounds of human manufacture is astounding.

  • This was the word that first caught my eye as the obverse of onomatopoeia.

  • Damn the myopic but all-seeing eyes of that news-ferret Cramer for having the cruel wit to reduce him to an onomatopoeia.

  • The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).

  • Luckily, since most comics are aimed at those with unsophisticated reading skills, most of the onomatopoeia inside is spelled the way it sounds.


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