Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whooping
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The move seemed to surprise Fallon, who naturally tried to quell her tears by shouting at her.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025 -
As the speeches began, chaos consumed the day as air horns were blasted, pages from pornographic magazines thrown down from the balconies and white mice released on to the floor, before the ‘nun’ started dancing up and down the aisles shouting comic profanity.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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Early this season, Coen, a former UMass quarterback who coached under Sean McVay with the Los Angeles Rams, was seen hollering at Lawrence on the sideline after an incompletion.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Dec. 2025
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Probst is as bad as any of them about this — look back no further than the amount of airtime on Wednesday’s finale that was spent hollering about Savannah making Survivor history by winning as many challenges as five other women in show history.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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The team claims Oakley was yelling continuously at Dolan, but Oakley has denied that and said he was asked to leave the arena shortly after taking his seat at the game for no reason.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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His tone was sharp, almost yelling.—
Heather Hunter,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Nov. 2025
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My friends played their parts, crowing over the buffet, piling their plates with sliders and wings, shouting at the television.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Mist curls through the jungle canopy as Ubud stirs with roosters crowing and incense rising from its ancient temple shrines.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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The man sat in the driver's seat, while the woman sat in the passenger seat, their crying child in the man’s arms.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
9 Nov. 2025
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At one point during the hearing, Richards pleaded for a tissue and began crying while recalling a particularly abusive event in May.—
Tracy Wright , Christina Dugan Ramirez , Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The Mummy, Stephen Sommers’ rip-roaring reboot of the 1932 Boris Karloff classic, turned star Brendan Fraser into an action hero upon its release in 1999.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Nov. 2025
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Dillard’s and Macy’s modest comparable sales growth of about 1% last quarter is hardly the mark of a roaring retail renaissance.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
7 Nov. 2025
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Like one icicle falling from an alpine crag onto an unstable snow cornice below, a small slide rapidly turns into a thundering avalanche.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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Above Simmons’ thundering bass line, Frehley announces that singing debut with a six-string solo that throws the kitchen sink into disarray with long phase shifts that that roll around the song’s elastic chorus.—
A.D. Amorosi,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Agents appear to fight off a screaming crowd trying to help the man by pushing them away and threatening them with pepper spray.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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There’s nothing like stepping onto the ice with thousands of screaming school children on top of you after an early-morning bus ride to play in an early-morning game to remind you’re in the AHL rather than the NHL.—
Scott Powers,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Whooping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whooping. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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