whooping

Example Sentences

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This also isn’t about whomping up a strong need to prove yourself.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

This is a concert movie that basically opens with a 19-year-old, pre-imperial-era Stevie Wonder getting behind a drum kit and whomping away — sitting, standing, kicking, possessed.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2021

The de facto sound of summer tends to come with whomping bass and a throbbing kick-drum.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2018

But then—kablammo—here comes Brienne of Tarth, galloping in like Brom Bones, whomping somebody off his horse.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

He was one of those energetic teachers who loved his subject half to death and leaped about the room dramatically, waving his arms and clutching his chest and whomping people on the back.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech