whoosh
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And then whoosh — whatever the ball hit, it knocked down everything at once.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Even the sound mix is brutally naturalistic, with the dialogue fighting to be heard over the whoosh of traffic in the exterior scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
The morning simmered into the afternoon, and the news of the day continued to whoosh by.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2025
“Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s intimate portrait of Leonard Bernstein, takes flight with a terrific whoosh of exuberance.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
So, a whoosh whoosh aah, I corrected him.
From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds
Prescient stock picks and whooshes of inflows have vaulted its assets under management to more than $20 billion, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Within five milliseconds of that contact, the spinning blade comes to a dramatic brake, and the blade whooshes below the table.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Its whooshes seep into the room, neatly complementing the motion of a computer-animated, widescreen video projection, “Lightscape of the Silence.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
The rhythmic crest and crash of the waves rippling through the whooshes of palm leaves on the trees soothes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
I go for the door—my now-drenched socks nearly slipping on the wet ground—but the akrafena whooshes over my head and comes to a stop in front of me.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
In Asia, Seoul stocks whooshed 75 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index bounced 28 percent and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rocketed more than 26 percent.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Edgar Allan Poe, for example, wrote a short story about a comet passing close to Earth, extracting all the nitrogen from our atmosphere as it whooshed past.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
We whooshed down toward the earth and back up again.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
And life being life, soon another 12 years have whooshed past, bringing the story into roughly the present day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
The roar of the distant train whooshed into the station.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
People often describe it as ringing, buzzing, hissing, or whooshing in one or both ears.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
The car in hand—the Karma Revero, a plug-in hybrid luxury GT, built in Riverside County, Calif.—surged beneath me, producing an otherworldly whooshing as it did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
"And then, just all of a sudden, there was just a really loud bang and lots of whooshing air, like the door burst open," a flight attendant said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
That lemon drop was a stunt in itself: made with lots of swirling and pouring and whooshing about, yet somehow simultaneously effortless.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
In the distance she saw a train whooshing over the fair’s all-electric elevated railway along the park’s perimeter.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
