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
  • That was maybe one of the biggest whiplash moments of the past three years.
    NBC News, 13 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Let’s hope Swanigan can shoot straight amid the whiplash.
    oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Things change in the playoffs at a speed that can cause whiplash and test the heart of a team and toy with the hearts of its fans.
    Kevin Acee, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Villafranca said all of the changes this week have felt like whiplash.
    Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • The film takes us into the screenplay and back to the present day often enough to give the viewer whiplash.
    Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral, 23 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Weddings were not exempt from the whiplash of change either.
    Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2020
  • 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
  • This can causes a sense of whiplash, which can make some people feel deceived.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024

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