whoop

Example Sentences

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In the 1780s Thomas Jefferson was serving as a diplomat in France when the Marquis de Lafayette brought him a message of unwelcome news from Virginia: His young daughter Lucy had died of whooping cough.

From The Wall Street Journal

We both gave respectful curtsies, though I couldn’t help but add a few bows at the same time, which might have given me the appearance of a whooping crane in courting season.

From Literature

Owen whoops, Leo claps, and even Taylor stops riding to check it out.

From Literature

Allow me to speculate: She may come knocking sooner rather than later, asking for house-insurance payments, upkeep and — whoops! — years of unpaid property tax.

From MarketWatch

In 1962, President Kennedy signed the Vaccination Assistance Act, which ensured that all children under five, regardless of income, could receive vaccines against polio, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus.

From Salon