whipping

Example Sentences

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This process, known as superradiance, has been compared to whipping cream into butter.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

Magyar’s team feared the tactic risked whipping up hostility toward the candidate now traveling with scant security.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Upbeat Midwestern activists withstood whipping winds to form a line of protesters stretching nearly three blocks of Burlington Avenue in Hastings, Neb.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

During last week's assisted dying debate Humza Yousaf observed that "less whipping" in the parliament might be a good thing.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

The quickening, Madeline had called it, as she laid her hands on Mia’s skin—such an old-fashioned euphemism, one that made her think of quicksilver, a lithe little fish whipping about within her.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng