Synonyms of 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.

Related Words

• whistled
• buzzed
• wheezed
• zipped
• whirred
• whizzed
• hummed
• zoomed
• rustled
• hissed
• burred
• whispered
• droned
• sighed
• thrummed
• fizzed
• purred
• bumbled
• murmured
• swished
• chirred
• whished
• sizzled
• cooed
• churred
• curred

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of whooshed

That would also be zero … Until my plane whooshed off the runway on the first day of my vacation. — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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