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Example sentences for "whip"

Lexicographically close words:
whinnies; whinny; whinnying; whins; whinstone; whipcord; whiplash; whiplike; whipped; whipper
  1. I don't pretend to be your equal at that kind of fence, and as it's perfectly evident to me you think you have a knotted whip for my back I'll wait till you're ready to lay it on.

  2. The goose-girl was already calling off the dog, and with a well-directed lash of her long whip sent him howling away.

  3. If that whip won't do, yank up a tree and let him have it.

  4. Although not knowing the difference between a derrick and a hand spike, a whip or a tackle, they listened with an air of profound wisdom to the engineer-lieutenant's technical explanations.

  5. And three times, with all the force of a young blacksmith's arm behind it, that whip rose and fell across the shoulders of Vernock's Mayor, ere it was broken with a snap and tossed by Phil among the straw.

  6. He had a long whip in his hand, poised high in the air, and was about to continue his devilish cruelty.

  7. The Mayor swung round and, before Phil got to him, the downward stroke of the whip caught the latter across the head and shoulders.

  8. He relaxed his fingers and the whip dropped to the strawed floor.

  9. George, hastening into the office, whip in hand, and devouring the letter-rack with eager eyes, where the unopened letters were usually placed.

  10. She was pacing the terrace of the Folly in her riding-habit, a whip in hand, and some dogs surrounding her.

  11. In her temper, she flung the whip to the other end of the hall as she passed through it.

  12. Charlotte wore her habit, and held her whip in her hand.

  13. How I used to whip that stream when I was a boy!

  14. Long Jim stood slowly cracking his whip and looking down the table.

  15. Laura touched her horse with the whip and cantered over to his side.

  16. The bird which is called "Whip poor Will" in the U.

  17. The saleswomen were aided by young women, evidently selected for their height and good figures, whose duty it was to continually whip on a dress or mantle, and promenade back and forth before the purchasers.

  18. Accordingly he quietly closed the door, put a whip into his pocket in case of need, and handed Jacko the duck he was about to pluck, adding a significant touch to the handle of the whip as a hint.

  19. He raised his whip a second time, and brought it down with a crack on the sides of Zamore, who ran out of the ring, and with his tail between his legs and an air of deep thought, he returned home.

  20. Jake=, a teamster for Benner, who uses a blacksnake whip in a novel, but effective way.

  21. The end of the whip handle landed at about the place where McGlory's missile had struck, the day before.

  22. Jake, standing in the front of the wagon, whirled a long blacksnake whip about his head by the lash.

  23. Murgatroyd, struggling to get the whip hand of himself.

  24. Farmer Green caught up a whip--a whip with a long lash and a limber stock.

  25. He had noticed that his father reached for the whip as if he fully intended to use it.

  26. A cart passed, pulled by heavy white horses; an old man with his back curved like the top of a sunflower stalk hobbled after, using the whip as a walking stick.

  27. The boy flourished his whip vaguely towards the horse's head.

  28. So he picked up his whip for three swift slashing blows, And Sir Lopez drew clear, but Right Royal stuck close.

  29. He was commonly followed by a couple of greyhounds and a pointer, and announced his arrival at a neighbour's house by smacking his whip and giving a view halloo.

  30. Whip a pint of cream, and, when firm, put it on ice for a quarter of an hour.

  31. Whip the three whites of your eggs until very stiff, add them gradually to the above ingredients, also an ounce of melted butter, and stir all together lightly.

  32. Whip a pint of cream until quite firm, and put it on the ice.

  33. Whip a pint of cream, let it remain fifteen minutes on the ice, drain off all the moisture, mix well with your cream three ounces of sugar and half a teaspoonful of vanilla, and fill the inside of your pastry.

  34. When the weather is very hot, and it is sometimes difficult to whip cream, put it in a bowl, which place in a larger one, and surround the smaller with cracked ice, mixed with a little rock salt.

  35. Occasionally when cream is pasteurized it will not whip well.

  36. When I sell my cream from the separator they say they cannot whip it.

  37. Take a whip and run her around the corral, after giving the soda.

  38. Another reason why the cream may not whip well may be that it is used too quickly.

  39. My natural good sense induced me to rebel against anything so completely ridiculous, and I quietly asked my teacher why I was to carry my whip in that particular position.

  40. I very much dislike to see a lady use a whip to her horse: and, as I have always proved spurs to be a great convenience, I recommend a lady to wear one, and to use it when necessary in preference to the whip.

  41. I once had a riding-master who desired me to hold my whip balanced in three fingers of my right hand, point upwards, the hand itself being absurdly bowed and the little finger stuck straight out like a wooden projection.

  42. Rod and whip may be alike useful in (happily) isolated cases, but I do not envy the disposition of child or animal who cannot be made amenable by less ungentle means.

  43. When we add orange gloves, and a riding-whip with a gaudy tassel appended to it, you have the details of a costume at once singular and unique.

  44. Having then no support for her head, she soon tired, and the instant I felt her speed relaxing I took up my whip and punished her within an inch of her life.

  45. I applied my whip sharply across his flank, but without effect.

  46. A plain riding-whip without a tassel, and a second habit of dark holland if you live in the country, will complete your necessary outfit.

  47. Others, again, acquire a habit of tipping their horse with the whip in an altogether unnecessary manner.

  48. By beating upon the front legs and otherwise cruelly worrying with the whip the poor ill-used slave which he should have felt bound to protect.

  49. Not one horse in twenty will refuse, or need either whip or spur if he knows his mistress, and if he does he is not fit for inexperienced riders.

  50. Who, then, should ply the whip and who the spear?

  51. Oh, Ishtar, if she might ride under whip and spur to Nineveh, and pit her wits against the King!

  52. The colonel, who was always gentle in manner, made a deprecatory gesture with the great riding-whip that he invariably carried.

  53. It is my work," answered the colonel, tapping with his whip the gold lace on his sleeve.

  54. With his whip he indicated a bell-chain, rusty and worn, that swung in the breeze.

  55. And the man, who had the pasty face of a clerk or a commercial traveller, raised his whip to heaven in a gesture of fierce anger.

  56. As he spoke he leapt out, and, climbing into the box, pushed the driver unceremoniously from his seat, snatching the reins and whip from his hands.

  57. And with whip and voice he urged the horses up the slope at a canter, while the carriage swayed across from one great tree to another.

  58. He shouted incoherently, and waved his whip above his head.

  59. Immediately Jim pulled the "leader" dog to the lift and cracked the long whip over the team.

  60. Ten minutes later he was cracking the new dog-whip over the backs of his yelping team, and mounting the high bank heading for the North once more.

  61. She sat on the sled, clad in thick mackinaw coat, fur cap, and mittens, whilst Jim stood behind with a twenty-foot whip clasped in his hand.

  62. The whip cracked and the dogs moved forward.

  63. The man that lays whip on your flanks oughter be shot.

  64. The long curling whip came down with a whistling crack, and the team went trotting across the dazzling white plain.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accelerate; aerate; agitate; applique; avert; bang; baste; batter; beat; belabor; belt; best; box; buffet; bundle; bustle; cage; cane; cat; chastise; churn; chute; clabber; clot; club; coachman; coagulate; convulse; corral; cowhide; cream; crop; crowd; cudgel; cuff; curdle; cut; defeat; deflect; destroy; disarrange; discompose; dispatch; disquiet; disturb; divert; drive; driver; drove; drub; embroider; emulsify; excite; expedite; ferment; fix; flagellate; flagellum; flail; flap; flog; floor; flurry; foam; forward; fret; froth; gadfly; goad; hack; hammer; hasten; herd; hide; hie; horsewhip; hurry; hustle; jell; jelly; knock; lace; larrup; lash; lather; lawgiver; lawmaker; legislator; lick; mantle; maul; needle; nudge; outclass; outdo; outrun; outshine; overcome; paddle; paste; patter; pelt; perturb; pivot; poke; pommel; pound; precipitate; press; prick; prod; pulverize; pummel; punish; push; quicken; railroad; rap; rawhide; representative; rile; ripple; roughen; roundabout; rout; ruffle; ruin; rumple; rush; scourge; scum; seesaw; settle; sewing; shake; sheer; shepherd; skin; slap; slash; sledgehammer; smack; smite; spank; speed; spume; spur; stampede; sting; stir; strap; strike; stripe; suds; swing; swipe; swirl; switch; teamster; thicken; thong; thrash; thresh; thump; trim; triumph; trouble; trounce; truckman; turn; undo; upset; urge; wagoner; wallop; whale; wheel; whip; whiplash; whirl; whirligig; whisk; whop; worst; wrangle


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    whip them; whipped cream