whooshed

past tense of whoosh

Example Sentences

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whooshed
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Phones buzzed with warnings all night warning of flash floods in the morning.
    Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026
  • In the 1970s and 80s, dirt bikes buzzed around its fragile landscape, creating erosion and noise.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • The old boiler wheezed and stalled, the roof sprang leaks, half-century-old pipes cracked, and the lobby intercom was defunct.
    Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • So Canha zipped out to Burbank in California for production with the Food Network.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
  • Having yanked herself out of the doldrums, Nosková zipped to a 5-2 lead in the second set, before again giving up four quick points to Muchová.
    Ava Wallace, New York Times, 11 July 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Traffic hummed along the avenue, and machinery whirred at the tire shop.
    Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026

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“Whooshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whooshed. Accessed 23 Jul. 2026.

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