Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whooped
Verb
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Witherspoon shouted in the same way Captain America assembles the Avengers.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026 -
Footage showed dozens of people being arrested as agitators shouted insults at state patrol officers, tore down yellow police tape and hurled lewd objects at law enforcement.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Court documents show Shadbar, who is white, yelled several derogatory racist and sexist slurs at his neighbors and had regularly harassed the family, including firing blank rounds toward Robertson’s home and throwing an M-80 type of firework over the fence into her yard.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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The two men yelled and cursed at each other before a staffer pulled the Congressman away.—
JoAnn Angelico-Stetson,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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The Lakers dunked, hollered and won.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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But Vrabel stopped the photographer and hollered another directive.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The Dutch fans roared every time one of their countrywomen zoomed by.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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The audience roared and cheered as Bad Bunny dance-narrated his way through a slew of scenarios and cities, surrounded by exuberant dancers who moved between salsa and reggeton rhythms.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In front of a raucous home crowd, Italy held off Georgia for the bronze medal behind a dazzling free skate from Matteo Rizzo, who dropped to his knees on the ice and cried.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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Duran looked down at the defense table as the verdict was read while Duprey’s mother, Gretchen Soto, and his partner, Pearl Velez, the mother of his two children, cried in the gallery.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
7 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Nuuk, the territory’s capital city, is emblematic of those towns, featuring brightly colored houses crowed together between a jagged coastline and inland mountains.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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While some in Kansas have crowed about poaching the team from Missouri, other residents are more critical of the deal’s generous terms for Chiefs ownership.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
1 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Near the launch site, members of the crowd shrieked or stared in disbelief.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026
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Normally, scent voices are mere whispers compared to the screams and angry shouts of humans, but in that section, certain sensitive plant species shrieked incessantly because of their proximity to plants that hindered their growth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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Sidelined for the second half of last season by a right hamstring tear that required surgery to reattach the tendon to the bone, Prescott thundered back by throwing for 4,552 yards, 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions while completing a league-high 404 passes.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Standing in Arizona’s largest dry lakebed, Wilcox Playa, astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy steadied himself as freight trains thundered by, threatening to blur the shot that took months to prepare.—
Lily Hautau,
CNN Money,
5 Dec. 2025
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“Whooped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whooped. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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