wa-wa
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The day i see a wa-wa bar and knobs on a Martin will be the day I turn in my picks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
Porgy and Bess, so named to prevent prospective customers from regarding it as a revival of the play, begins with droning "Do-doo-da's" interspersed with "wawa, wa-wa."
From Time Magazine Archive
A good many of the worst knocked about were talking a bit wild, but I never heard the guy with the Chinook wa-wa again.
From Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman
I have listened to the music of thy shores—the call of the cacawee, the laugh of the wa-wa goose, and the trumpet-note of the great northern swan.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
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