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
• 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
• Did that feel like whiplash or was that a nice soft landing?
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In Provincetown, this news has left behind a feeling of whiplash.
  — New York Times, 31 July 2021
• The policy whiplash also caught the health system off guard.
  — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• The tonal whiplash in Mr. Fieri’s company can be dizzying.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2022
• But was the whiplash-like switch from last year’s drier monsoon to this one a result of climate change?
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
• For Hadia, the Taliban takeover has been a period of whiplash.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• For Amelia McClain, 2020 was a year of emotional whiplash.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
• Part of this change in mindset lies in the emotional whiplash many experienced in the past year.
  — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2022
• That hearing where Badel testified was the latest twist in a whiplash series of events.
  — Dara Kerr, NPR, 17 June 2024
• To reveal much more of the plot would risk spoilers and rob Escola’s whiplash storyline of its great pleasures.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024