- present participle of whoop.
whooping
Example Sentences
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In the mornings, Christine eagerly awaits the brightly colored, highly vocal birds swooping into their garden, whooping their greetings before flying off into the junglelike foliage.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
Something similar happened in response to a whooping cough outbreak that started in 2011.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
In the 1780s Thomas Jefferson was serving as a diplomat in France when the Marquis de Lafayette brought him a message of unwelcome news from Virginia: His young daughter Lucy had died of whooping cough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
In 1962, President Kennedy signed the Vaccination Assistance Act, which ensured that all children under five, regardless of income, could receive vaccines against polio, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2026
I knew if he went to whooping at me, Papa might chance to look out the store window and wonder why I wasn’t weeding the garden like he said to.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
