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Usage examples of oompah.

An oompah band and banners and another tight militia platoon bringing up the rear.

The band struck up a brisk but grating oompah beat and the young men turned their backs on the crowd and wiggled their leather covered asses at them, then they spun around and went into their song.

An oompah of thunder bellowed directly overhead just as the soldiers shoved Sumner into the torch-circle.

One day he hired a marching oompah band and showed up at the statehouse carrying a tremendous roll of paper.

He needed live music for his clubs but German bands could only play oompah music or military marches.

Mechanical moaning and oompah muzak seeped from an alcove under the stairs.

I stood there, bewildered, wondering if some terrible calamity had occurred, when I heard the faint oompah of drums and squee of trumpets floating, ghostly, on the wind.

The traffic sounds, roar of conversations on the veranda, motor scooters, and vendors hawking everything salable overpowered the band, reducing it to an occasional cymbal-clash, an oompah now and then.

There are no back roads to take, no freeways to hop, nothing but nature, cheese shops, and oompah bands.

One day he hired a marching oompah band and showed up at the statehouse carrying a tremendous roll of paper.

An instant later he was blowing teedle-eedle-ees and oompahs as loud as he could blow.

Instantly from every dwelling marched men arrayed in gay uniforms like Oompahs and Tunesters in embroidered tunics like the Queen's, only instead of drums, on their heads they wore bright bandannas.

I would have been tickled pink to oompah my little heart out except I had somehow neglected to take sousaphone lessons in preparing for a life on the stage.