whipped
Example Sentences
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A fierce wind whipped up from the beach, as officers tried to hold the cordon.
From BBC
Ahead of the holiday season, Costco launched about 45 new Kirkland products, while also cutting prices on items such as chicken pot pies, slabs of bacon, packs of whipped cream and walnuts.
There were brief respites, but things seldom got easier: “The wind whipped up at noon and sleet came smacking down,” Mr. Tesson recalls.
Ms Davies added that when Woodhouse returned from that suspension, she and other members had been whipped into supporting his appointment as a school governor.
From BBC
High winds whipped the fire through the Palisades neighborhood in early January, on the same day that another fire destroyed neighborhoods in Altadena, an unincorporated community roughly 25 miles northeast.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
