Example Sentences

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Prescient stock picks and whooshes of inflows have vaulted its assets under management to more than $20 billion, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Within five milliseconds of that contact, the spinning blade comes to a dramatic brake, and the blade whooshes below the table.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Its whooshes seep into the room, neatly complementing the motion of a computer-animated, widescreen video projection, “Lightscape of the Silence.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

The train on the opposite track whooshes into the station, cutting the boy and girl off from each other.

From New York Times • May 8, 2022

The door whooshes shut behind me, DO NOT DISTURB.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon