as in whistled
to move very quickly with the sound of quickly flowing air or water
Cars whooshed along the highway. Water whooshed down the pipe.
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Recent Examples of whooshed
Crews worked for months to install the devices, intermittently closing a lane of traffic on the bridge and hoisting themselves up the towers as cars whooshed by.
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Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
From there my type B personality whooshed in.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026
Nearby, a life support machine whooshed and beeped steadily.
—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
From there my type B personality whooshed in.
—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026
Nearby, a life support machine whooshed and beeped steadily.
—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whooshed
Verb
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That prospect flared up for Seoane as the home fans whistled and booed at the final whistle, and became reality on Monday when the club’s board acted.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Outside buzzed the controversial Court Street bike lane, the subject of a recent lawsuit which Dornagon covered closely.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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Altadena buzzed with the sound of construction in late April.—
Aarne Heikkila,
NBC news,
14 May 2026
Verb
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The previous owners must have doused the property with chemicals, and as summer wheezed toward its smoky end, my lawn became less suburban ideal and more of a pop quiz in weed identification.—
Maggie Slepian,
Longreads,
14 May 2026
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The old boiler wheezed and stalled, the roof sprang leaks, half-century-old pipes cracked, and the lobby intercom was defunct.—
Michael Powell,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.—
Ross Mantle,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The Mayor, after arriving with his chief of staff and first deputy mayor, zipped off a pair of ankle boots and joined the men on the floor.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
Verb
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Luis was dressed in his hospital pyjamas; his pained breathing fogged his mask while the oxygen canister gurgled and whirred.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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Traffic hummed along the avenue, and machinery whirred at the tire shop.—
Thomas Lake,
AJC.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Whooshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whooshed. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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