oomph

IPA: ˈumf

noun

  • (informal, uncountable) Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.
  • (informal, uncountable) Sex appeal.
  • (countable) A bassy grunting or thudding sound.

verb

  • (intransitive) To produce a bassy grunting or thudding sound.
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Examples of "oomph" in Sentences

  • She needs confidence and a bit of oomph.
  • Not sure it has the same oomph as the other items.
  • And ads on the Internet, at least so far, lack oomph.
  • It's a nice image, but it is, imo, missing some oomph.
  • Adding a near term oomph to a degrading balance sheet?
  • The book deserved a reviewer with more intellectual oomph.
  • There's not a great difference between OOMPH and Die Krupps.
  • Panache is the little oomph that brings something over the top.
  • Microsoft's presscon just wasn't as "oomph" - ish as it should have been.
  • But it could gain oomph through its deal with Microsoft and Dell, which took shape last fall.
  • This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid.
  • What I missed was what I can only describe as the oomph I had expected, the spectacular quality of the sheer mass of them, the "serried ranks" I mentioned above.
  • Looking into the hopefully not too distant future, the Intel iBooks’ selling point is going to be the most reliable OS and UI with the most popular desktop, Windows (plus a little bit extra oomph from the CPU).

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