How to Use aah in a Sentence

aah

verb
  • That’s when the oohing and aahing quickly turns to panic and pleading.
    Cary Darling, kansascity.com, 16 June 2017
  • That’s when the oohing-and-aahing quickly turns to panic and pleading.
    Cary Darling, idahostatesman, 15 June 2017
  • That's when the oohing-and-aahing quickly turns to panic and pleading.
    Cary Darling, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • On May 30, the pop singer shared pictures of her nails in an Instagram carousel for her millions of fans to ooh and aah over.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 31 May 2022
  • Everyone oohed and aahed and cleared the way for them as if in the presence of true royalty.
    Kate Storey, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2018
  • By the time the World Series rolled around, no one was talking about his off-field issue, but many were oohing and aahing over his 103 mph fastball.
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Pat Schroeder and some of her friends were oohing and aahing over this guy — and at his prospects in national politics.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Luckily, the sky cleared just in time for totality with those in attendance oohing and aahing at the rare sight.
    Ajc Homepage, ajc, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Parents oohed and aahed as Jody Worth, the upper school director, ushered them through the campus.
    Emmanuel Felton, NBC News, 17 June 2018
  • The pristine pantry in her Los Angeles home made headlines earlier this year as fans oohed and aahed over the custom set-up.
    Caroline Picard, House Beautiful, 8 June 2017
  • On Thursday, families waiting for flights oohed and aahed at the vast marble floors and glass walls and took selfies in a landscaped picnic park.
    Washington Post, 4 May 2018
  • Watching coho salmon jump through the Inkwells is like watching a Fourth of July fireworks show: At each jump, people ooh and aah at the electrifying sight.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Fireworks will be launched from four spots across Albuquerque so that people can ooh and aah from home instead of gathering in a single place.
    John Seewer, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2020
  • Inside, oblivious tourists from across Japan oohed and aahed as dolphins performed tricks for fish to cheesy rock music, and children lined up to stroke them.
    Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Later, as another dancer in a leather bustier and thigh-high boots landed on the floor in a split, a number of women oohed and aahed, and made their way to the seats surrounding the stage to throw bills her way.
    New York Times, 24 July 2019
  • So many of us remember sitting somewhere on a blanket oohing and aahing over awesome light shows bursting overhead.
    Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 28 June 2023
  • Competitors trotted down a green carpet while spectators oohed and aahed and the judges jotted notes onto their score sheets.
    Travis Deshong, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Houston hosted the world weight lifting championships last year. The sport’s greatest athletes, many Olympians among them, hoisted staggering amounts of weight above their heads, and the fans there oohed and aahed.
    Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 19 May 2016
  • Fireworks will be launched from four spots across Albuquerque, New Mexico, so that people can ooh and aah from home instead of gathering in a single place.
    John Seewer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2020
  • Even Eichorn, who should be entirely too jaded by now to fully appreciate the aerial antics of a tarpon, would ooh and aah with each leap.
    Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Everyone at Wrigley Field immediately glanced at the video boards after each Aroldis Chapman pitch in 2016, oohing and aahing at the triple-digit numbers.
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Hundreds of families slowly passed through Bentleyville on Saturday, sticking their heads out their car windows to ooh and aah at the dazzling displays.
    Katie Galioto, Star Tribune, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Partygoers oohed, aahed and hash-tagged away — as the iPhone generation does — until the dinner bell sounded.
    Amber Elliot, Houston Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2019
  • This awards season, from the Golden Globes to the Grammys, there was a particularly high volume of oohing and aahing from stargazers because many celebs have decided to go sheer this year, and the trend is trickling down to the public, too.
    Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Any guests will ooh and aah over their striking color and sophisticated stoneware construction.
    Grace Smith, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Yet in the heart of the Broadway theater district, just around the corner from where the famous ball drops every New Year's Eve, visitors are oohing and aahing at a massive whale, vicious squid, playful sea lions, and other marine life.
    Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Friends and relatives were drifting into the house, oohing and aahing over its size and special touches: the music room, where the family would store and play their instruments; the windows looking out into the forest; the expansive kitchen.
    Cynthia Hubert, sacbee.com, 13 May 2017
  • With each new photo shoot and red carpet event, the actor delivers breathtaking moments that will oftentimes go viral on the internet, causing folks to ooh and aah at her outfits, hair, and makeup.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 7 Sep. 2021
  • But audiences in those days oohed and aahed at the sight of the latest in modern machinery — trains, in particular — on theater stages, and at spectacles run with an efficiency worthy of a brave new age of industry.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017

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