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whoosh
verb as in fly
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in sibilate
Example Sentences
The moment the horn sounded, they were gone, and I was running alone, until the leaders came pounding by with a whoosh to lap me soon after I’d completed one circuit.
Sheila Moody, in Room 472, heard a whoosh and a whistle and she wondered where all this air was coming from.
After the initial whoosh and blast, it had seemed eerily silent until they reached the D Ring hallway, where they heard other people, crying, moaning, talking.
Then with a whoosh in came Elliott Woods, the contributor of a piece titled “Veterans of a Foreign War.”
The surf was not very high this time,—just waves that went whoosh and then pulled the pebbles back with a nice scrawpy sound.
Late in the day, he felt rather than heard the soundless whoosh of the construction machinery.
A little one, like the crack of a distant artillery piece in the mountains and then a louder, deep-toned whoosh of a noise.
Those trees are always sigh-sigh-sighing—more of a sigh than a sough or the 'whoosh' of gum-trees in the wind.
Before he could examine it, or move toward the door, Penny, with a mighty “whoosh” blew out the candle.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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