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Example sentences for "whooping"

Lexicographically close words:
whomso; whomsoever; whoo; whoop; whooped; whoops; whop; whopped; whopping; whore
  1. The Show Strikes Virginia and the Educated Ourang Outang Has the Whooping Cough--The Bad Boy Plays the Part of a Monkey, but They Forget to Pin on a Tail.

  2. They were simply scared to death, and they broke out the side of the tent near the lemonade stand and went whooping out into the open air and freedom, while the audience yelled with joy.

  3. Her imagination pictured him as the bravest and most daring of these adventurous hunters, and conjured up his figure charging through the midst of whooping savages, or stretched on the ground perishing from wounds, or cold, or famine.

  4. Them poor devils looked back miserable now, with about a hundred red varmints tearin' after their hair, and whooping like mad.

  5. Jerry and Carl had been whooping and sliding down the banisters as she came through the hall.

  6. I've had scarlet fever and measles and ersipelas and mumps and whooping cough and pewmonia.

  7. They did not see her and continued whooping and sliding, and Mrs. Davis was convinced they did it on purpose.

  8. Now and then some bird of night flies past them, and they hear the whooping of the owl, and see him skimming like a ghost over the waste.

  9. A pryse was thrice sounded by Nicholas, and soon afterwards the whole company came flocking round the spot, whooping the death-note.

  10. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

  11. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

  12. So they moved and dodged through the quiet streets, with the shells still whooping overhead and bursting noisily in different parts of the town.

  13. He stopped suddenly as a succession of whooping rushes passed overhead.

  14. He dashed into the woods whooping and yelling, with Collie circling about him in noisy delight, and darted back again at short intervals to ask a dozen unanswerable questions.

  15. I never heard a body of women whooping and yelling for five minutes when somebody's name was mentioned in the convention.

  16. Wild whooping followed, and the Maypole rocked uneasily, and began to slant downward in a drunken fashion, like a convivial giant whom strong wine has made doubtful of his footing.

  17. Shouts of laughter followed this irreverent proposal, together with much whooping and cheering as never was.

  18. When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.

  19. And even if you're tired you can't sleep for the croup, Caused by the awful whooping bugs, which lurk within your throat And make your voice sound hoarser than the singing of a goat.

  20. The sound again--merely the mellow cadences of a swamp pheasant whooping among the blady grass.

  21. Before Dave could recover the Indians were on them, whooping as if their very lives depended upon it.

  22. Another followed, and then came a wild whooping and yelling which continued for ten minutes or more.

  23. They listened and amid the crackling of the flames they now heard the whooping and yelling of a score of Indians, while the flickering glare showed to them the dusky forms moving in one direction and another.

  24. The whooping of the redmen also lessened and finally ceased altogether.

  25. The Indians who had been drinking from the demijohn were growing hilarious and their wild whooping could be heard for a long distance.

  26. Men whooping and yelling, wild-eyed horses straining every muscle, the charge swept down upon the besiegers of Lainey's Hotel and Jackson's blacksmith shop.

  27. Whooping and yelling, the riders squattered across the creek and poured into Paradise Bend, the wild-eyed ponies rocketing like jack-rabbits.

  28. Then she said it had the whooping cough and kept you awake all night and I asked her why her mother didn't make some flaxseed tea for it.

  29. Section 73 Peter could see it all very clearly when he came to figure over the thing; he could see what a whooping jackass he had been.

  30. Of course McGivney and Guffey and all his men read the story, and knew Peter for the whooping jackass that Peter knew himself.

  31. Amid the harsh jangle of the Andersons and Bill Mead's big whooping shouts it always seemed like music to me.

  32. Thus the trouble spreads, and may end in half of what answers to the Lower Sixth of a boys' school rocking and whooping together.

  33. I say to you who are laughing at my misery, that I have seen the Devils at high noon whooping and leaping on the shoals of the Chenab.

  34. They had perceived the trappers before they were themselves discovered, and came down yelling and whooping into the plain.

  35. The Indians followed, whooping and yelling like devils, and although their ponies ran well, they could not overtake my swift-footed Selim.

  36. In a few moments the infuriated Indians made another charge, shouting and whooping as only savages can, and launched a shower of arrows into the timber.

  37. But when the horses had been secured the reserve party of savages dashed by the camp, whooping and yelling in triumph, and the very last one of them was the gigantic chief who had tried to joke with Mr. Stuart.

  38. Sibley, "to ask you for some assistance in regard to a disease which is very bad here--the whooping cough.


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