whippy
Example Sentences
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She used her feet effectively to skip down the pitch and combat the swing, scoring predominantly through the leg side with her trademark whippy wrists and strong drives.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024
Those numbers came in Taillon’s time as a pitcher with a long, whippy arm motion.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2021
For instance, some bacteria have flagella, or long, whippy tails rotated by motors.
From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2020
Much of the footage is decelerated, with McEnroe’s whippy serve becoming a languid, slow-motion dream of power withheld and loosed.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 24, 2018
Squelch straddled a limb of the Hollow Log like a horse and whipped his own bum with a whippy stick.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
