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How to use whoosh in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Whoosh means a breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. Example: “The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche!”

Examples of whoosh by meaning

nounA breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.

  • The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche!2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times

verbTo cause to pass quickly.

  • Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.2023 January 14, Trocheck Mate @RSolisByx, Twitter

verbTo kill by gun, to shoot.

  • How many man got whooshed like Jackson?2020 August 27, A.M, “I Ain’t A Yardie” (track 10), in Mally
  • How many man's been whooshed with the stick?2022 April 27, Tight Road Baby, “Plugged In” (track 10), in Fumez the Engineer, C Dot (music), Plugged In: S5 (2022)

interjectionImitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.

  • I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92

More sentences with whoosh

  • He clicked the trackpad, and his computer made a whooshing noise.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 217. From the entry trackpad
  • Gangdem known for the shootings, go ask Ramz – got whooshed with a broomstick.2020 January 19, Sin Squad & Mloose, “Don't Ride Back”. From the entry broomstick
  • The ever-shifting whoosh of water and the reeshling of leaves came from her lips as they moved.2013 August 22, Andrew Greig, Fair Helen, riverrun, →ISBN. From the entry reeshle
  • Next time I meet up with that whoosh Kai, I'll show him who's king of the Blades!2002, Beyblade, "Day of the Dragoon" (episode 2). From the entry mark my word
  • The whoosh pushed John down, and as he fell, he turned to see the machine hulking over him, just meters away.2012, Paul Melko, The Broken Universe, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 314. From the entry hulk
  • Turning to Spam, he wished to ask him if he felt it, too. ¶ “Argle-bargle morble whoosh?” said Frito.1969, The Harvard Lampoon (Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney), Bored of the Rings, Signet, page 30. From the entry argle-bargle morble whoosh
  • I put down my muesli mid-guzzle and flumpfed into a kitchen chair, all the get-out-of-the-house adrenaline leaving my body with an almost audible whoosh.2013, Cory Doctorow, chapter 12, in Homeland, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry flumpf
  • You know, when the mean critic takes a bite of Remy’s dish and is whooshed out of the present back to his happy childhood?2013 September 25, Lesley Suter, “Lesley Suter’s Ratatouille Moment”, in Bravo TV. From the entry Ratatouille moment
  • An arctic wind whooshes down Columbus Avenue like the IRT express, catching her bags, scarecrowing her arms, and threatening to take her broad-brimmed hat downtown.2010 May 3, Robert N. Chan, “If Pigs Flu”, in The Bad Samaritan, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry scarecrow
  • But a video, taken from above, projects these writhings as if she were flying at top speed in a tunnel above traffic that’s whooshing past in the opposite direction.2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times. From the entry writhing
  • Samar Pratap Singh (Manoj Bajpai), is posted to a Bihar township, instantly whooshing into a cataclysmic conflict with the baddy-two-shoes Hitler called Bachu Yadav (Sayaji Shinde).1999, “Shool (1999)”, in Angelfire, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2002. From the entry baddy-two-shoes

Meaning of whoosh

  1. noun A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
  2. noun A homicide by shooting.
  3. noun A gun.

Full definition of whoosh

Questions about whoosh in a sentence

How do you use whoosh in a sentence?
Whoosh is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche!”
What is a short sentence with whoosh?
“How many man got whooshed like Jackson?”
What does whoosh mean?
Whoosh means a breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.

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