Each addition to the whirling, shrieking, blood-thirsty band was greeted with thunderous whoops and in the end nearly one hundred and fifty braves were going through all the barbarous awe-inspiring motions of the horrid celebration.
In a minute or two this ceased, and then with fiercer war whoopsthan before, broke out afresh.
With wild whoops and yells, keeping up a continuous fusillade, the plucky band kept straight on.
Five rifles crashed out, but their leaden missiles went high, followed by another series of wild yells, whoops and scattering shots.
While the poor fellows were being bound to the stakes, Jacob and I ran into the barracks, where we remained, trying to shut out from our ears the yells and whoops which told of what was going on.
The announcement of the chief's purpose was received with whoopsand yells of approbation.
The whoops were an awful noise to hear, and one very thin, respectable old cow set off at once.
Loud rang the war-whoops of Kah-go-mish and his daring followers, and their rifles cracked rapidly for a half-minute before they sprang out of their cover.
The air rang with whoops and shouts, and among them could be heard a very positive assertion concerning himself from the deep voice of Kah-go-mish.
I can scarcely recall the time when my stern teacher began to give sudden war-whoops over my head in the morning while I was sound asleep.
Cheers and war-whoops became general, such as were never equaled in any concourse of savages, and possibly nowhere except at a college game of football.
The following are war whoops or Indian calls: "Ki-yi, whoo-oo!
They were intermittent, died down, popped out again, yielded to whoops in distant crescendo.
Bullets and arrows were still flying, but the defiant, triumphant war-whoops of a band of painted warriors slowly moving toward them showed that the day was won and lost.
With wilder whoopsthe Arizona men spurred their ponies on.
His cries for aid were mingled with the savage whoopsof his ferocious enemies.
His blood-curdling whoops and yells brought the sheriff in on a brilliant finale to a record-breaking run.
Several warning whoops broke the stillness, and it seemed to the fugitive that half the Indians were in pursuit of him.
The warriors ran about in all directions, and deafening whoops and yells arose on every side.
Then the savages, with whoops and yells, began circling about the machine.
The war-whoops ceased, the blanket was quickly withdrawn from the chimney-top, and two thuds on the east side of the cabin showed the Indians had left the roof.
The whoopsof the flanking party redoubled, and were accompanied by a desultory firing, which the four men opposing them answered in the same way.
An hour had passed when loud whoops gave us warning of the enemy's approach.
Their shrieks, yells and war-whoops were terrible, they acted like demons.
The yells and whoops of the Indians were terrific, demons from the depths of perdition could not have made a more frightful noise.
We left them after giving them the advice not to trouble themselves about war-whoops in future, since they would be apt to feel an Indian's arrow before they heard his voice.
They had scarcely disappeared when whoops and exclamations came from fifty voices around me.
By the cries and whoops that rose from below he knew that the Blackfeet were just beneath him; and running forward, he leaped down the rock into the midst of them.
The Indians, disappointed, repeated their war-whoops and yells betokening anger.
Then Dick turned and started swiftly down the slope, Tom and Ben keeping close at his heels, and from behind them came the wild, thrilling war-whoops of the redskins.
On the day on which the feast was to commence, the trader was awakened at an early hour by the loud whoops of the savages already arriving to take part in the ceremonies.
He made his presence known by whooping from the edge of the branch, and his whoops shaped themselves into the name of Yancy.
The whoops finally brought Yancy to his cabin door.
I did wish the fool would think to beat a tin pan, and beat it all the time, but he never did, and it was the still places between the whoops that was making the trouble for me.
The whoops was warnings that would come to us every now and then, and if we didn't try hard to make out to understand them they'd just take us into bad luck, 'stead of keeping us out of it.
Several of the enemy fell; among them their leader; but a murderous fire broke out from among trees and a ravine on the right, and the woods resounded with unearthly whoops and yellings.
Their strange outcries, and uncouth forms and garbs, seen by the glare of the fire, and their whoops and yells, made them appear more like demons than human beings.
They were guided to the village by whoops and yells, and the sound of the Indian drum.
We were just approaching the entrance of the cave, when the war-whoops of the Indians, and their loud cries, as they shouted to each other, reached our ears.
Before I had finished this operation I heard the wild whoops of the Indians directly behind me.
I shall be very thankful to find myself safe in some settlement where the war-whoops of the Indians are not likely to be heard," he answered.
The sight of the pale-face skurrying to cover, would be sure to bring a bullet from the Pawnee's gun, or he would summon his comrades to the spot, by one of those whoops which were heard so many times the previous day.
At the same moment the whistling bullets and the war whoops left no doubt of the explanation.
War whoops came from different points of the village.
The rapid crackle of rifles mingled with the shouts and war whoops of the combatants.
Suddenly the trees and rocks reverberated with blood-curdling war-whoops and a volley of bullets rained upon the deck, wounding a negro named Peter so desperately that he afterward died.
At this time, while picking their way over the prairies, they were astounded to hear whoops from a band of Indians to their rear, who, having discovered their presence at the Epperson cabin, were then giving them chase.
Their signals were given for battle–war-whoops were heard in almost every direction–their flanks extending from one creek to the other.
The warriors within, to a considerable number, gathered about the entrance, the designated place, and began their dance, raising with their whoops and yells a din to heaven.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whoops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
