How to Use whoosh in a Sentence

whoosh

1 of 2 noun

• As the rain picked up, the whoosh of raindrops through all of the leaves warned me.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
• Next, the fore sail unfurled with a quick whoosh of rope.
  — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 1 July 2017
• Strange whooshes of cold air had servers afraid to use the stairs.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2019
• Then came the whoosh of helicopters, revving up to ready the course.
  — Rachel Levin, WSJ, 3 July 2018
• The clack-clack-clack of the pilot light led to a whoosh of flame coming to life.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
• Then Thnitt thought a Thought that arrived with a whoosh!
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• Then a whoosh of snow tattered the trees and night swallowed us whole.
  — Rosanna Warren, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• Then the came the whoosh of a net flying through the air and plopping into the water.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022
• The stores close, the schools close, the traffic on the avenue dwindles to a sporadic whoosh.
  — Hana Schank, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
• Joshua bent over the cake, closed his eyes, made a wish — a long one — and then blew out the candles in a whoosh.
  — Dorie Greenspan, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Against the rhythmic whoosh of my own breath in the snorkel, the reef crackles with the dawn brigade of fish feeding off the coral.
  — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• The whoosh from a passing truck cascades over your face.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• The wet whoosh of whale breath joined the thunder cracks of calving glaciers and the rumbles of avalanches.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• Even before the train came to a complete stop, the doors opened with a whoosh and Amaka hopped off.
  — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
• The whoosh of the soda pouring, the ice getting stuck and then crashing down in an avalanche.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 15 Sep. 2023
• Then, exhale completely (through the mouth) to make a whoosh sound.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 31 Mar. 2023
• Blood rushes hot to my face with a whoosh, and the steady, thick pumping of my heart invades my eardrums.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2021
• The other is at the top of a mound, where the wind whooshes by, so there’s an area of low pressure at that end of the tunnel.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018
• First is the whoosh mode, which varies the fan speed up and down to simulate a natural breeze.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• Two tandem slides start at about 105 feet in the air and whoosh riders to the bottom in just a few seconds.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
• The louvered screens of the bedroom window let in the ocean breeze and the white-noise whoosh of the surf, shot through with those sharp, full-throated calls.
  — Bonnie Tsui, Redbook, 23 May 2017
• The louvered screens of the bedroom window let in the ocean breeze and the white-noise whoosh of the surf, shot through with those sharp, full-throated calls.
  — Bonnie Tsui, Redbook, 23 May 2017
• Like levees breaking in my limbs, blood rushed to my stomach in a whoosh.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• Back on the line with O’Brien comes the satisfying whoosh of gas catching fire.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 27 June 2018
• Ongais rushes us out of the right onto the pit straight with a fierce, neck-tugging whoosh.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 10 June 2020
• Gone the heartbeat, the steady unnoticed whoosh of blood and oxygen through veins, warming the skin.
  — Katie Gutierrez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Mar. 2021
• With a whoosh, Clive, a 7-month-old Harris's hawk, spreads his wings and takes flight over the wet streets of downtown Portland.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• One evening, the whoosh of jet engines sent Adamu’s captors scrambling.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
• Distant sirens and horns and the whoosh of the nearby freeway provide the accompanying pulse.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• The actors must also project their lines above the bang of pots and pans ricocheting off of stainless steel, the sizzling of cooking food or the whoosh of running water.
  — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024

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whoosh

2 of 2 verb

• Water whooshed down the pipe.
• Cars whooshed along the highway.
• And then there was the sound: the soft grainy whoosh whoosh whoosh of the beating heart.
  — Robin Amer, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2020
• The look was enough to send the frantic breaths whooshing right out of her lungs.
  — Wesley Snipes, The Root, 27 May 2018
• Cars whoosh down Northern Boulevard, and stores are a bit of a walk.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• The Doppler effect whooshes back and forth in the background while pitched up and warped synths swirl in the distance.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2017
• This time, thanks to a pandemic, the water has whooshed away at record speed.
  — The Economist, 18 Apr. 2020
• After a grand, silent pause, the music comes whooshing back in.
  — Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• The lights were flickering all around Syd, and something whooshed by her.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2020
• The graphics whooshed at you like a Blue Angels flyover.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 July 2016
• The waters whooshed by with surprising force, pulling him away.
  — Terrence McCoy, The Seattle Times, 18 Sep. 2018
• Air whooshed through the cabin, and snow-like debris floated down the aisle as oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Awe, the little sister of those blue whoosh feelings, helps pull us out of those moments.
  — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• The idea is for fish to mistake the whooshing current created by the pumps for the river’s flow and get lured into the trap.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
• Salmon the size of baby carrots would be whooshed into it, trapped in tanks and trucked around dams on their migration to the sea.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
• The Starship Enterprise would whoosh by, and my father would shake his head.
  — David Beers, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
• The flood washed away a land bridge near current-day Gibraltar, letting the Atlantic’s waters whoosh in.
  — Michael George, National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2020
• But the same day the women were found alive on Patos Island, an ambulance with more survivors whooshed by.
  — New York Times, 10 July 2019
• Around them, hundreds of thousands of cooling fans fill the building with whooshing white noise.
  — Cao Li and Giulia Marchi, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• Their white sides whooshed by, their presence anomalous in this valley where almost no one lives.
  — Wired, 20 Sep. 2019
• Minutes later, whooshing past my ear, a fat black crow blindly flew through the open window and smashed into the wall.
  — Michael A. Gonzales, The Root, 25 Mar. 2018
• Together, the team looks more like a giant whooshing snap pea than a quartet of elite athletes.
  — Nick Pachelli, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
• Falling in love is his arms around you, his dog leaning against your chest, wind whooshing the thoughts from your brain, mountains unfurling across the blue.
  — Diana Spechler, Longreads, 28 Oct. 2017
• The fire station doors open and an overhead vent system whooshes loudly.
  — Paulina Pineda, azcentral, 16 Nov. 2019
• The emergency room sliding glass doors whooshed open as my husband ventured out to the darkened streets of Brooklyn.
  — By Denise Snodell, kansascity, 28 June 2017
• After all, your baby was surrounded by the consistent sound of whooshing blood while in the womb.
  — Mary Caldwell, ajc, 12 July 2018
• And life being life, soon another 12 years have whooshed past, bringing the story into roughly the present day.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• So make sure to simulate flying a plane in your seat, making loud whooshing noises with your mouth.
  — Eli Grober, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
• Suddenly dry, warm — or downright hot — air is whooshing toward the coast.
  — Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2017
• No traffic, small patches of green space to grow sunflowers and squash and morning glories, open spaces for the kids to whoosh by on scooters.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024