Example Sentences

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“I was at a Count Basie concert and he was sitting behind me and he was whooping and hollering so much everybody was wondering who this crazy guy was!” said Acox.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2019

First, it was whooping cough: in 2012, more than forty-eight thousand cases and twenty deaths were reported to the Centers for Disease Control, the greatest number since 1955.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2015

And Morrissey was whooping charmingly over the top of it all.”

From Time • Jan. 16, 2013

And soon everyone was whooping and giving thumbs up.”

From Scientific American • Jul. 11, 2012

She knew we were nearly there, and this was hardly surprising, I suppose, since Karli was whooping and waving up there on her back, and Mutti and I were laughing out loud in our relief.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo