Example sentences for: oy

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

  • oy not so much a word as an entire vocabulary, as Rosten observes: “can express any emotion, from trivial delight to the blackest woe.”

  • The 40 profiles include the obvious choices--Frank Sinatra, Dr. Spock, Roy Rogers--but there are also stories about Otto Bettmann, who began his photo archive with two suitcases of photographs carted out of Nazi Germany; Martha Gellhorn, who covered wars from Spain in the 1930s to Patagonia in the 1980s; and the inventors of the Cuisinart, the La-Z-Boy, and bubble gum.

  • This could also be known as the "Oy gevalt " intelligence.

  • As for the notion that Bulworth the politicized B-Boy could send shivers down the spines of the Murdochs and Perelmans of the world.


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