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How to use onomatopoetic in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word onomatopoetic? Here are some examples.

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Mark Liberman has an interesting post over at Language Log about the spelling of interjections and onomatopoetic words in comic strips.
Goudou-goudou, an onomatopoetic rendering of the sound that people heard when the shaking began, is the Haitian Creole name for this earthquake.
The Samurai Shopper loves a product that's onomatopoetic and exclamatory too.
His dictionary hints at moments of cultural syncretism and dissonance, and, of course, varying degrees of onomatopoetic accuracy.
In places the translation, from the French, yields onomatopoetic effects that depart from our own.
Examples from Classical Literature
As we know, music is a language which may delineate actual occurrences by means of onomatopoetic sounds.
Here belong also the onomatopoetic attempts of children, which are simply a sort of imitation.
In the cultural languages they recur, if at all, only in the onomatopoetic word-formations of later origin.
The use of onomatopoetic words, words whose sound signifies the sense, is so common that we seldom give it a thought.
Then follows the march, expressed both in musical notes and onomatopoetic words.
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