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Examples
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He's resorting to having the readers on his website count the "Ahs" "Uhms" and "You knows" coming from Obama.
Here's How Tonight's Big Obama-McCain Showdown Will Unfold 2009
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Presently 'Ahs' and 'Ohs' began to escape Mrs Allcock and two other women who had joined the party.
A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side Christie, Agatha 1962
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A chorus of admiring and reverential "Ahs" arose from the priesthood.
Tarzan the Terrible Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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"Silence!" he roared out at the pitch of his voice, making the ceiling ring again, dropping his "Ahs" and drowning the sibillation of the malcontents by sheer dint of making a superior amount of noise.
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story William Heysham Overend 1874
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-- a tale in Persian, then in Turkish, and the night grew breathless, full of listening, until pent-up interest at intervals burst bonds and there were "Ahs" and "Ohs" all amid the dark, like little breaths of night wind among trees.
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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-- a tale in Persian, then in Turkish, and the night grew breathless, full of listening, until pent-up interest at intervals burst bonds and there were "Ahs" and "Ohs" all amid the dark, like little breaths of night wind among trees.
The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909
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A more sensible exclamation than poets usually preface with their whining 'Ahs' and 'Ohs!'"
Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
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BOMB! even though he knew it sounded more like a stream of muffled Ahs.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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BOMB! even though he knew it sounded more like a stream of muffled Ahs.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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