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Example sentences for "whips"

Lexicographically close words:
whippin; whipping; whippings; whippoorwill; whippoorwills; whipt; whir; whirl; whirle; whirled
  1. A wild, unwonted hubbub rose, whereat the King grew wroth and sent a force of men with whips to flog the Hittites back into their camp again.

  2. And she asked for ten snow-white shifts to be brought her, and the tub of lye, and the tub of milk, and as many whips as a boy could carry in his arms.

  3. The whips are similar to the preceding except that bark strings are used as shown in Fig.

  4. The whips have four buckskin lashes about 35 cm.

  5. It is to deny that any has a right above a brute that is bridled, harnessed, or yoked, to be driven by the spurs and whips of its owner.

  6. The Council of Augsburg ordered that all suspected females should be driven by whips from the dwellings of the clergy, and have their hair cut off.

  7. Amongst them, he was to prepare all the whips we required -- two for each driver, or fourteen altogether.

  8. He had taken down one of the insulted triple-handled whips from the shelf in his bunk, and stood in a fighting attitude.

  9. Fortunately we were well supplied with Alpine rope, and that did for the harness; spare straps came in for ski-bindings, but the whips were not so easy to make good.

  10. The whips afterwards turned out remarkably well -- not that they lasted out the trip, but they held together for a long while.

  11. Well, there are five small whips of rhinoceros hide and two gags.

  12. Or if you wish to punish her, the rhinoceros whips would do better than a cage.

  13. To such a lad a frown may be a whipping, and a whipping a death; yea, where their master whips them once, shame whips them all the week after.

  14. Mo-li Shou has two whips and a panther-skin bag, the home of a creature resembling a white rat, known as Hua-hu Tiao.

  15. From all sides other Immortals joined in the terrific battle, which was a turmoil of longbows and crossbows, iron armour and brass mail, striking whips and falling hammers, weapons cleaving mail and mail resisting weapons.

  16. It was one Sunday evening that some of us whips had met to crack a few bottles.

  17. I had very little control over her, for I was so laden with whips and stones that my hands were useless for the reins.

  18. These whips were the whips of Conscience, with which they scourged and stung the souls both of the dead and the living.

  19. It growled, dogs snapped, men laughed and whips were cracked.

  20. Men with whips and snarling dogs circled about the pump.

  21. Then, with cracking whips and straining traces, strong, mettlesome horses prancing in the fulness of their strength and spirit, Griffin's West Point battery comes tearing through the lane.

  22. A coil of thong lay on the sledge; also two whips with short handles of bone, but exceedingly long lashes,--not less than fifteen or twenty feet in length.

  23. We could hear the whips snap, followed by piteous yelps and long-drawn howls.

  24. Last night she put her hand under that sort of night-shirt she wears and whips out a knife with a kind of a curl in the blade, so I whips out my revolver, and we walks round and round each other till at last she bursts out laughing.

  25. Temperance told me, when she was with us for a week, that his overcoats, hats, umbrellas, and whips never had such care as Fanny gave them.

  26. I saw a turnout of whips and wagons about the hitching-posts round the green of a Tuesday the year through, and going to and from school met men with a bovine smell.

  27. Showing that "our pleasant vices are made the whips to scourge us.

  28. Like lightning, the men made a line behind, shouting, yelling, cracking their whips to drive them onward.

  29. One of us handing two of these whips to a companion to take his choice, we stood up close together and thrashed each other on the legs until one succumbed to the intolerable pain and thus lost the game.

  30. In Scotland our great ambition was to be good fighters, and we admired this quality in the handsome little chattering flycatcher that whips all the other birds.

  31. Men, and even women, crowded the platform, jeering and cursing those in the waggons, menacing them with their whips and snatching at such trinkets, and even cloaks as took their fancy.

  32. No, mother; I contented myself with thrashing him with one of his own whips until my arm ached.

  33. Some more presently came up, and when the number was complete, the native drivers cracked their whips with reports like pistols, and the oxen got into motion.

  34. As he spoke, several members of the party flourished long beechen whips which had evidently been cut from the forest very recently.

  35. Before they reached the tumbled-down fence, however, she saw them wheel suddenly about and point with their whips to the south, where a mass of flame and smoke was roaring skyward.

  36. Just after two of you boys left my house to-day, a gang of good fellows laboring under a misapprehension came up with a supply of birch whips intended for the backs of you kids.

  37. But the Whips reported that the feeling in the House was 'uncontrollable.

  38. One member of the Government, mentioning to the Liberal Whips that he was dining with the Fourth Party, was told that 'so long as he kept those four fellows away he could stay any length of time he liked.

  39. But Church reform which is the product of a Cabinet checked and controlled by party Whips and guided by House of Commons lobbies is surely in its nature a monstrosity, possibly a profanity, certainly a farce.

  40. He jeered at the Liberal party--who had been exhorted by their Whips not to take too much part in the discussion--'for assisting in the capacity of mutes at the funeral obsequies of free speech.

  41. They mean to have their own Whips and their own organisation and probably will sit below the gangway on the Ministerial side of the House.

  42. The Whips do not want speeches, but votes.

  43. When the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer urged the need of economy and spoke his mind, in all courteous moderation, upon the financial policy of his successor, the Government Whips whispered that it was only his jealousy and spite.

  44. But the amendment was moved with all the sanction and authority of the official Opposition, and the party Whips had summoned their followers from far and near to support it.

  45. To ensure complete unity of action, we think it desirable that the Whips of the party should sit, ex officio, on the Council, and should have a right to be present at the meetings of all Committees.

  46. They had their blameless young men of good family and exemplary deportment who never gave the party Whips an anxious moment and used their talents only to discover what 'older and therefore wiser' people would wish to have them say.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.