Thesaurus results for WHOOSHED

whooshed

verb

past tense of whoosh

as in whistled

to move very quickly with the sound of quickly flowing air or water Cars whooshed along the highway. Water whooshed down the pipe.

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Recent Examples of whooshed And Prune and Chocolate Rugelach, which whooshed me back to baking lessons with my grandma, who rolled rugelach in the same crescent fashion. — The Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 June 2026 On Monday evening, I was whooshed alongside hundreds of guests in dark vans, escorted by police, to the Vela di Calatrava sports complex on the outskirts of Rome. — Charlotte Reed, CNBC, 29 May 2026 Chilling moments like this are the lifeblood of The Dreamed Adventure, the moments that recall the pitiful last days of the dying communist era and the violent, mafia-style economics that whooshed in to replace them. — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 May 2026 Crews worked for months to install the devices, intermittently closing a lane of traffic on the bridge and hoisting themselves up the towers as cars whooshed by. — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026 Nearby, a life support machine whooshed and beeped steadily. — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025

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That prospect flared up for Seoane as the home fans whistled and booed at the final whistle, and became reality on Monday when the club’s board acted.

— Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025

Definition of whistled

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The defense struggled a bit in the first half with the reserves on the field even after producing a second-quarter interception, and the offense also gasped and wheezed with the reserves on the field.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026
The previous owners must have doused the property with chemicals, and as summer wheezed toward its smoky end, my lawn became less suburban ideal and more of a pop quiz in weed identification.

— Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 14 May 2026

Definition of wheezed

Verb

For three consecutive evenings, just before dark, this bird zipped to the dining table, gobbled down a quick meal, then hurried back to its roost.

— Tom Huggler, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
Voyager 1 zipped past Jupiter in 1979 and, in 1980, flew by Saturn and its largest moon, Titan.

— Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of zipped

Verb

As the machine whirred to life, the film strip moved from a large platter through a system of rollers, pulled sideways across the front of the lens.

— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Luis was dressed in his hospital pyjamas; his pained breathing fogged his mask while the oxygen canister gurgled and whirred.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026

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