Example sentences for: onomatopoeia

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

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

  • Much comic-book onomatopoeia comes from the fights of good guys versus bad guys, specifically the sound of fists against bodies.

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

  • In parallel with the roots of onomatopoeia (onoma `name' + poiein `to make or do') I have christened the effect onomatoplazia: onoma again + pladzein `to mislead or deceive.

  • 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 ).


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