Example Sentences

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It was more of the same when the race was resumed the next day, and Jones was whooshing along with a 54-second lead, just short of a lap, with only four laps left.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

Then Ben Stokes came in - almost every second or third ball he was whooshing at it, almost as if he was trying to win the match.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2015

Last week, in an uncannily similar disaster, Joe Leonard was whooshing toward apparently certain victory in a new STP turbine when�just 22 miles from the finish�a $12 fuel-pump shaft sheared off and the engine died.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wind was whooshing along noisily and steadily at a brisk twenty-five miles an hour, but gusting to at least double that, and from ever-shifting directions.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson