whoosh
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Even the sound mix is brutally naturalistic, with the dialogue fighting to be heard over the whoosh of traffic in the exterior scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
The sling whips over the top with a whoosh.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
Rumble, wheeze, groan, roar, whoosh, clank, thud, creak and repeat — this, for me, is the onset of bus reverie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
“Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s intimate portrait of Leonard Bernstein, takes flight with a terrific whoosh of exuberance.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
Reynie’s breath escaped in a whoosh of relief.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Prescient stock picks and whooshes of inflows have vaulted its assets under management to more than $20 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Within five milliseconds of that contact, the spinning blade comes to a dramatic brake, and the blade whooshes below the table.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
She stirs spirits with the barely heard whooshes of drum brushes waved in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
Its whooshes seep into the room, neatly complementing the motion of a computer-animated, widescreen video projection, “Lightscape of the Silence.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
The brakes squeak, the door whooshes open, and I step up to ask the driver, a big woman with long pink fingernails and shiny skin, how to get to Rancho Renato.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
In Asia, Seoul stocks whooshed 75 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index bounced 28 percent and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rocketed more than 26 percent.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Enterprise, the iconic starship that whooshed through the stars in the opening credits of the 1960s TV series “Star Trek” but had mysteriously disappeared around 45 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
We whooshed down toward the earth and back up again.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
The rest are left raw, for a wheat-ish subtleness, and whooshed in a food processor until powdery.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021
The countdown hit one, and the air whooshed from my lungs as a sudden intense pressure encased my body.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
People often describe it as ringing, buzzing, hissing, or whooshing in one or both ears.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
The car in hand—the Karma Revero, a plug-in hybrid luxury GT, built in Riverside County, Calif.—surged beneath me, producing an otherworldly whooshing as it did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
"And then, just all of a sudden, there was just a really loud bang and lots of whooshing air, like the door burst open," a flight attendant said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
And he did, whooshing his arm under my back to make sure.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
