whoosh
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No iPhone glows disturbed the darkness, just snores and the thud of wheels, the occasional whoosh of a passing train tilting us to one side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
The sling whips over the top with a whoosh.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025
Distant sirens and horns and the whoosh of the nearby freeway provide the accompanying pulse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
“Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s intimate portrait of Leonard Bernstein, takes flight with a terrific whoosh of exuberance.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
A cloud moved in front of the moon, covering the whole landscape in darkness, and a whoosh of wind rushed down the hill and into his room, billowing the curtains.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
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
A bus whooshes by, an unhoused man screams as he walks by with a shopping cart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 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
My blood whooshes down from my hair to my feet.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
In Asia, Seoul stocks whooshed 75 percent, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index bounced 28 percent and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rocketed more than 26 percent.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Edgar Allan Poe, for example, wrote a short story about a comet passing close to Earth, extracting all the nitrogen from our atmosphere as it whooshed past.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2023
We whooshed down toward the earth and back up again.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Suddenly the front door whooshed open, and a young woman entered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
It came knifing in through the tiny peep-hole in the pocket and whooshed around her like a hurricane.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
People often describe it as ringing, buzzing, hissing, or whooshing in one or both ears.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
The car in hand—the Karma Revero, a plug-in hybrid luxury GT, built in Riverside County, Calif.—surged beneath me, producing an otherworldly whooshing as it did.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
"And then, just all of a sudden, there was just a really loud bang and lots of whooshing air, like the door burst open," a flight attendant said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
That lemon drop was a stunt in itself: made with lots of swirling and pouring and whooshing about, yet somehow simultaneously effortless.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
The wind was whooshing along noisily and steadily at a brisk twenty-five miles an hour, but gusting to at least double that, and from ever-shifting directions.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
