Onomatopoeia Examples

“The wind was screeching so loudly that we literally had to shout to be heard”. This sentence is an example of how words are used to describe sounds and actions. Onomatopoeias are used when you need to describe a sound or action using a word that refers directly to the description of the sound or action. We all remember the old batman series. Every time batman and robin got into a fight, words like biff, bam, splat, wham and pow would be used to describe the effect of the punches thrown by batman and robin. Similar words are used to describe various sounds in comic books too. These words are the best examples of onomatopoeia. Not all onomatopoeic words can be found in dictionaries since there may be times when we make up a word that best suits the situations, sound or action that we need to describe. Some common examples of onomatopoeias have been listed below.