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  • So perhaps a new, more high-tech look is more fitting on the new model, but Ferraris are supposed to elicit "oohhs" and "ahhhs," not "ughs" - or worse, complete indifference.

    Autoblog 2009

  • So perhaps a new, more high-tech look is more fitting on the new model, but Ferraris are supposed to elicit "oohhs" and "ahhhs," not "ughs" - or worse, complete indifference.

    Autoblog 2009

  • So perhaps a new, more high-tech look is more fitting on the new model, but Ferraris are supposed to elicit "oohhs" and "ahhhs," not "ughs" - or worse, complete indifference.

    Autoblog 2009

  • It's easy to grab a handful of sounds and call it a language: Barpish will be full of Bs and Rs, Gruntish will be full of guttural 'ughs'.

    Robert Redick, author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy: The Chathrand Voyage, answers our questions 2010

  • Pudgy cheeks that once drew "ooohs and aaahs" are eliciting "ughs" from some parents who have struggled with their own weight issues and fear their children will toddle along the same path. —

    Child news: Probiotics, kids' eating disorders, brown rice for infants? 2010

  • Pudgy cheeks that once drew "ooohs and aaahs" are eliciting "ughs" from some parents who have struggled with their own weight issues and fear their children will toddle along the same path.

    Child news: Probiotics, kids' eating disorders, brown rice for infants? 2010

  • He also needs to see a speech therapist, his stumbling and "ughs" are getting to be as embarrassing as Bush's "heh heh heh's".

    Pro-Hillary 527 On The Air In Texas 2009

  • I think there's probably a million examples of a review lemonhound could have held up to that sort of interrogation; reviews that have moved beyond the margin's "ughs" into actual sentences.

    K. Silem Mohammad Reads Elizabeth Bachinsky Lemon Hound 2008

  • The other old women rose from their hard beds with many "ughs" and groans, and undercurrents of grumbling.

    Good Luck L. T. Meade 1884

  • A general chorus of "ughs" and other ejaculations from both council and spectators responded to this interrogatory.

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

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