How to Use whoop in a Sentence

whoop

1 of 2 verb

• The children whooped with joy at the sight of all the presents.
• The audience whooped it up and pumped fists in the air.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
• The Warriors whooped the Cavs and the referees tonight.
  — Daniel Mano, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
• Now the House ought to whoop it through and move on to the substance of tax reform.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• Our guests whooped us down the aisle, and there was so much laughter and tears.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2023
• The aftermath: Daiek and his team whooped and high-fived.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 8 Feb. 2020
• Sarah Paulson is ready to whoop it up in her next role!
  — Amethyst Tate, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2022
• The mom of six zoomed in on her son’s face and whooped at the end of the clip in celebration.
  — Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• There’s nobody on that list that can whoop me, come on now.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 11 Aug. 2023
• The crowd, many clad in wool caps, gloves and down jackets, whooped and clapped and yelled with each new stunt.
  — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2018
• At each prize, the crowd whooped and cheered, often rising to its feet.
  — New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
• First, so my mom doesn’t whoop me, thank you for March 29th -- for the veterans.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• The pair was whooping it up on the Celtics' bench during this beatdown.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
• Butts can fumble and asses get whooped, but a pushed tush can earn you a first-and-ten.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Kate could sing a ballad but also whoop it up and toss off a throaty growl.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2021
• Men on horseback whooped and hollered while dogs scampered back and forth.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
• The first ladies of Bravo will be whooping it up again this July.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 11 June 2018
• My mom used to whoop me for running around the house, knocking stuff over with a football in my hand.
  — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 24 Jan. 2018
• Everyone had cheered when Ovechkin and Holtby came out, but the Caps fans stood up and whooped.
  — Charlotte Wilder, SI.com, 12 June 2018
• The remaining words were: whoop, phony, chomp, ghoul, chock, and whomp.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Brooklyn babe The crowd whooped at Streisand’s first mention of Brooklyn.
  — Joe McGovern, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Cheers and whoops drowned out the pop music blaring from the loudspeakers.
  — Laura Parker, WSJ, 14 May 2019
• Missing from their crew: Messi the dog, who’d whooped it up at the Neon party and now was sleeping.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• The footage had the entirety of Hall H on their feet, whooping and hollering and whistling.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2017
• As the very first scene of the music video popped up on screen, the audience began whooping with joy.
  — Alexandra Holterman, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2017
• McGann seemed doubtful, but some other men whooped and hollered, and that felt great.
  — Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• In France, console sales spiked by a whooping 140.6% during the first week of lockdown.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2020
• The crowd whooped and cheered as Collins accepted his proposal and the two embraced.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2023
• Jansen whooped it up, playing third base and trying to make behind-the-back stabs at practice grounders.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
• Pretty soon Brayden and Aaron are exchanging F-bombs and threats to whoop each other's butts, etc.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 July 2023

Advertisement

whoop

2 of 2 noun

• For her, yes, the noise, yes, the dirt, yes, the heat—whoops, a rat!
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• The sounds mingle with the shrieks and whoops of riders.
  — Aaron Randle, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
• Nickelodeon picked up the show with more of a shrug than a whoop.
  — Darryn King, Longreads, 13 Aug. 2019
• Friedman let out a whoop and sent the good news to the student.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2018
• The torque slams me into my seat back and squeezes out of me a whoop.
  — Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
• Williams let out a whoop after the pick and fired the ball high into the air.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 27 July 2019
• Do my math and go to the payments website to give them $444 and whoops!
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2018
• Flutes and trumpets slide from the first chord to the second in an anguished whoop.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 June 2021
• Then, from the right, came a shrill whoop as a third group charged out of the bushes, shouting and firing.
  — Tristan McConnell, GQ, 16 Apr. 2018
• Every few minutes, it would be hoisted in the air to whoops and smiles.
  — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 8 June 2018
• Instead, these questions are met with smiles and whoops of glee.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Then Chef Michael, as he was known now, rose to whoops of excitement.
  — Peggy Orenstein, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
• As Serenity pulled up, Tom gave a whoop and waved a black cap out the window.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2018
• Bond told the crowd at one of their birthday shows, prompting whoops and applause.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• Estrada, in a Giants cap and black-and-orange plaid shirt, lets out a whoop.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• The train kept up a relentless pace that whipped riders around turns and over whoop-de-do humps.
  — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 10 July 2017
• The Bulldogs were unranked in the initial poll (whoops!), entered at No.
  — Joe Magill, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
• Drivers battle the open desert full of whoops, soft sand, and steep hill climbs that challenge even the quickest of cars.
  — Emme Hall, The Verge, 24 Feb. 2023
• Take the side of the plucky gal who stole a king’s heart in defiance of his whole stuffy country, and whoops, your heroine is a Nazi.
  — Joanna Scutts, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2018
• So Clay gets some voiceover action next season—big whoop!
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Aug. 2017
• The work ended with a long rising and falling vocal whoop from the players.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
• The crowd in this high school gym whoops and claps, and, oh yes, that kid with the great court vision who just tossed down the ball so effortlessly?
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 June 2019
• With whoops and claps, the rapper engaged the crowd and displayed the poise of someone who, at just 20 years old, has spent years making the stage his home.
  — Kat Moon, Time, 28 Jan. 2020
• But some investors—and an undisclosed number of subscribers—seem to think Whoop is a big whoop.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 8 Sep. 2021
• That spared me the victorious whoop from the cockpit that I’m told was heard on other flights that day.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2022
• On a spring afternoon in Atlanta, Sara struts down a runway amid cheers and whoops.
  — Mayra Cuevas, CNN, 6 June 2019
• Hall let out a thrilled whoop upon completing the run, then buried his head in the crash pads in disbelief.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Feb. 2022
• Smiling widely, Allen pounded the table in front of him twice, and let out a guttural whoop.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Nov. 2020
• There is a loud ache of moving noise: whistling birds, clicking insects, the whoop and cough of unseen gibbons.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2020
• Listening for the whoop of a siren is a tradition in much of the central and southern United States.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 28 May 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024