Whipple

[ hwip-uhl, wip- ]

noun

1. Fred Lawrence, 1906–2004, U.S. astronomer.
2. George Hoyt [hoit], 1878–1976, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1934.

Example Sentences

He underwent an operation called a modified Whipple procedure, or a pancreatoduodenectomy, Fortune reported.

From The Daily Beast

Sixty-four men were selected, and Abraham Whipple, who was afterward one of the first captains in the American navy, took command.

From Project Gutenberg

They received, without flinching, the terrible fire which flamed from Berry's and Birney's and Whipple's lines.

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Fields is gone, and his old friend and neighbor Whipple, who was one of the earliest of the noted lyceum lecturers.

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Old Sharon Whipple, the player who putted, never knew that above him had gone a thing he had very lately said could never be.

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Ripe berries still glistened about the stone of the departed Jonas Whipple.

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