Example Sentences

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Late-night audiences have been whooping and barking since the Arsenio Hall days, but this is noise is different, louder, approving of the rant, the tirade, the cutting quip.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2016

The critics have been whooping it up in the Malamud salon for so long now that it seemed as if the author of The Fixer might be the man.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was pretty sure that most people would have been whooping with joy over a find such as ours, but we were not.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk