Sentence examples for the duh from inspiring English sources

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the duh

interjection

Disdainful indication that something is obvious.

  • It's hot in the desert. - Well, duh!

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Eyes roll with the duh.

(Here's a tip of the "duh" variety: When your glasses are not on your face, keep them in their case).

An ABC News official confirms that Westin gave the order to distribute copies of the "duh" E-mail to the media, assuming that it would exonerate him.

Paige politely omitted the 'Duh' as she ticked off reasons she would never swap Broadway for, say, the junior high musical.

If you do, it is sure to be rejected (perhaps with a big roll of the eyes) because it didn't pass the "duh" test.

You begin to feel the tension between the abstract meter of the poem — the "duh DA duh DA duh DA duh DA duh DA" of iambic pentameter, say — and the rhythms arising from the actual sense of the words.

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The art of listening to the cadence and musicality of prose in good writing (it's all about the "duh-duh-dum").

Nor will there be any slow-motion fluttering sound effects when bionic powers are being used, the duh-duh-duh-duh noise emulated in '70s playgrounds the world over.

Wallinger said he was honoured to get the commission, especially since he was brought up close to the Central line in Chigwell and fondly remembers waving at tube drivers to try to get a toot and then falling asleep every night to the duh-dum-duh-dum of the trains.

"Lethal Inspection" was down two tenths of a point from the previous week's episode "The Duh-Vinci Code".

"You report to no one, you are the CEO (duh)," reads the job description on the website.

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