whooping
Example Sentences
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Although it is not a vaccine, the vitamin K shot has been swept up in the same post-pandemic tide that has led to a drop in key childhood vaccines, including for measles and whooping cough.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
The flu and whooping cough vaccines are also recommended during pregnancy.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
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
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
