- 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
Both she and a guy danced en pointe; Adéla never went long without whipping her long pink hair, which was one style choice widely replicated throughout the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Greens do not have a whipping system, meaning that MPs are free to vote as they wish.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
When Tiedemann posted clips on social media of her whipping up seafood pastas and searing rib-eyes, she became an overnight sensation, as much for her bawdy, uninhibited personality as her culinary prowess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Cat pedaled to the house, cool air whipping her face until it stung.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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
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