Example sentences for: onomatopoeic

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

  • A rarer bird, but also with an obviously onomatopoeic name, is the hoopoe .

  • The class of onomatopoeic and reduplicative terms for spoken language is large : blather, buzz-buzz, chitchat, fiddle-faddle, jibber-jabber, yakety-yak, yuk-yuk . The earliest appearances of something resembling yadda yadda yadda in print derive from its use in sound-symbolic fashion, as in this exchange from a short story (about anthropomorphic ducks) appearing in a 1949 issue of the Saturday Evening Post :

  • Grockle turned out to be onomatopoeic, being all the little dragon ever said.

  • Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!

  • Admittedly, lowing is also onomatopoeic.


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