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

A long whippy larch branch sprang forward suddenly.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques