whoosh

The commotion and noise are unnerving; cars speed by so close you can feel whooshes as they pass.

As they sweep past, their beating wings whoosh in unison.

She stirs spirits with the barely heard whooshes of drum brushes waved in the air.

Things went whoosh! and she signed with legendary agent John Casablancas, then decamped to New York, where she worked for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and virtually every other fashion magazine on the newsstand.

The air thrums with the din of destruction — giant excavators clanking against steel beams, trucks bleating out warning signals as they back into position, green organic material whooshing out of hoses onto finished sites.