- present participle of whip.
whipping
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"If you have less mass in the system overall, things can gently orbit each other without whipping back and forth," Burdge says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
The Greens do not have a whipping system, meaning that MPs are free to vote as they wish.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Tropical Storm Lala is already whipping and soaking Hawaii’s Big Island and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Lawmakers refused to give up their whipping boy and ignored the committee’s recommendations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Isa left the bakery and blindly walked toward home, not feeling the harsh wind whipping around her.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
The father of the student told BBC Pidgin he approved the whippings.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
English officials jailed as many as 15,000 Quakers, and their missionaries faced whippings, exile, and even the death penalty in Massachusetts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
James Bolton, interviewed by a white worker in Athens, Georgia, told this story about whippings:
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2016
So too with one of the workshop editions of “Ecce Homo”: Bosch presents a Christ who is bowed and lacerated with whippings and dripping with blood, whereas his follower presents Christ standing upright, seemingly unhurt.
From Economist ● Feb. 25, 2016
Aunt Loma’s heart was down on a level with Mr. Angus Tuttle’s, and he had caused me more whippings than I could count.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
