Example Sentences

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So there the Rays were, whooping it up three days after their actual clincher.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Both Watters and his audience — who were whooping and hollering — are just so clearly threatened by Dr. Fauci.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2021

People were whooping and laughing in the next car and in other cars, farther away.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

On the ship we were whooping it up.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2015

My heart was racing and my head was hurting, but the girls were whooping and hugging each other in the backseat.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall