whisk
verb (used with object)
to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke.
have whisked
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present perfectof whisk.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But voters have watched the helicopters and long convoys that have whisked top candidates around the country for months.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
Journals have whisked manuscripts through to formal publication in record time, aided by researchers who have rapidly peer-reviewed the studies.
From Nature ● Jun. 2, 2020
Exercise Focus Retina* was the latest in a series of airlift demonstrations that have whisked troops from home bases in the U.S. to hypothetical hotspots in Iran, Turkey, Greece, Norway and West Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only that supernatural jinn could have whisked the infant from their midst; only Bal-Bal, with his demon body, sailing through the air on enormous wings, could have descended upon them so silently, so stealthily.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart
The very cobweb that swung across the window just now has a venerable appearance, entirely inconsistent with the fact that the housemaid's broom was supposed to have whisked across these beams but yesterday.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
