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Examples
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We were now in the country and it was all bare trees and a few odd distant like twitters, and in the distance there was some like farm machine making a whirring shoom.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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At this point, brothers, a plenny somewhere or other near the back row let out a shoom of lip-music - 'Prrrrrp' - and then the brutal chassos were on the job right away, rushing real skorry to what they thought was the scene of the schoom, then hitting out nasty and delivering tolchocks, left and right.
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So now, slooshying this fearful shoom of the rozz - van, I belted for the front door and had a rabbiting time un - doing all the locks and chains and bolts and other protective veshches.
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Then there was the shoom of another like police siren passing this auto but going the other way.
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Then there was the shoom of a door opening and you could tell some very important chelloveck was coming in by the way the white-coated under-vecks went all stiff.
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No veck came, so I knocked a malenky bit longer and louder, and then I heard the shoom of nogas coming to the door.
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And then . . . shoom . . . the Super Stallion shot off the bow of the Nimitz, soaring out horizontally from the flight deck for a full 150 feet, hanging in the air for a moment before it arced downward, falling toward the sea.
Hell Island Matthew Reilly 2010
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And it's got to be a arc, shoom, like this, and as fast as the punches.
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Then I could slooshy voices saying Right right right from like a distance, then nearer to, then there was a quiet like humming shoom as though things had been switched on.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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I walked through the dark and followed not the town way but the way where the shoom of a like farm machine had been coming from.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
feelsurreal commented on the word shoom
"Noise" (Russian origin)in Nadsat (literary lingo from A Clockwork orange).
January 7, 2009