How to Use whiplash in a Sentence

whiplash

noun

• He got whiplash when his car was rear-ended.
• It’s been a bit of whiplash this week the world of Russian oil.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• The Rangers aren’t alone in dealing with a case of Guardians whiplash.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
• Even Mills had whiplash due to the star’s acting chops.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024
• All the while, the song beats your brain in with dark, clubby bass beats and whiplash synths.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2022
• Leave that whiplash style of storytelling to The Last of Us.
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
• Wais said, still shocked by the whiplash of Kabul’s swift fall.
  — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
• The whiplash of the NFL world can make one slightly nauseous.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2020
• Tapia left the game after the play with a little bit of whiplash and a sore neck.
  — Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
• Did that feel like whiplash or was that a nice soft landing?
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• It’s the sort of whiplash plot Hollywood movies are built on.
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
• Two days later, though, a kind of civic whiplash set in, as Daunte Wright was laid to rest.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Tagovailoa was spun and driven to the ground on a sack, causing the back of his head to hit the turf from the whiplash.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
• During the display flight the bird climbs, the wings are smartly cracked like a whiplash, and the bird glides down on stiff wings.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Nov. 2023
• It’s a whiplash-fast thriller with a dose of clear-eyed social justice.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• Tua fell backward and crashed to the turf, creating a whiplash that banged his head.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
• But this week, the Shiv-Tom whiplash continued and ended on a new low.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
• The whiplash in hiring is hitting tech and crypto hard.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 17 June 2022
• The back-and-forth has created whiplash for many Israelis.
  — Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
• The whiplash has left many schools scrambling to adopt ever-changing rules.
  — Collin Binkley, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
• Where Johnson scores over Christie is in the whiplash of his storytelling.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• The competing messages — one of hope and one of warning — may seem like a recipe for whiplash.
  — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• Then, in January of 1977, a kind of slow-burning whiplash struck the nation.
  — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• But the White House’s outreach to Riyadh has provoked a fair amount of whiplash in Washington.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Susanne Lyons has grown used to the emotional whiplash.
  — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
• The plot here makes whiplash turns, loop de loops and sudden reversals.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• Perhaps more than anything, employees felt a sense of whiplash at the rapid rise and fall.
  — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• The easiest way to describe it is sort of a whiplash but in a good way, in a challenging, fun way.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• Brooke’s backslide Brooke Schofield’s boomerang from TikTok hero to villain would give even the most hardy of drivers whiplash.
  — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2024
• The weight of Shohei Ohtani, the whiplash of Betts, the woeful starting pitching, all of it was deftly handled by a manager who has won eight division titles in his nine seasons.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024