- present participle of whoop.
whooping
Example Sentences
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And she said the hospital had treated her husband for whooping cough for six weeks when he was a child.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
In the mornings, Christine eagerly awaits the brightly colored, highly vocal birds swooping into their garden, whooping their greetings before flying off into the junglelike foliage.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
It’s not too late to save the whooping crane, the red-cockaded woodpecker, the piping plover or any of the other 86 birds on the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
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 ● Jan. 4, 2026
If a bunch of us went charging at ’em whooping and raising Cain they might disappear back into the forest for another two, three days.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
