How To Use Whoosh In A Sentence
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A whoosh of freshly ground mocha coffee hits the nose and then, once the wine hits your mouth, it's joined by black fruits, liquorice, spice and a spray of refreshing acidity.
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Danlo listened to the wind rise and whoosh between the buildings.
The Broken God
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With a ‘whoosh’, the dried wood and grasses caught fire, and the flames licked around the pyre.
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It's nice to think of them picturing Father Christmas and his sleigh whooshing across frosty rooftops, as opposed to me thrashing my way around a soulless out-of-town shopping centre.
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The water whooshed down the drain.
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He points to a little button which allows air to whoosh out of the bellows so that they can be closed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twisting and spinning up and down the rope, he whooshed a few feet above the audience's heads.
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I see his ministerial car waiting for him at 10 o'clock every night - whoosh, he is off into the night in his chauffeur-driven car!
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And with that, he was gone, the door whooshing closed behind him.
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He whooshed the doors open
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With a small whoosh, one of four 15- millimeter projectiles streaks from the munition pod strapped to his wrist.
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He points to a little button which allows air to whoosh out of the bellows so that they can be closed.
Times, Sunday Times
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All it takes is a whoosh of inflationary breeze and the buck is off!
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Back then, it was lazy weekends picnicking by - and whooshing down - the natural sandstone water chute at Slide Rock.
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It's nice to think of them picturing Father Christmas and his sleigh whooshing across frosty rooftops.
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All snug in our pajamas, we are whooshed off to Katroo, where the Birthday Bird takes us for a whirwind day of Mustard-Off pooling, time-telling fishing, and Birthday Pa-alacing on and on and on till it ends.
Tornato Number Two Turns Six
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‘The reaction was like whoosh,’ she says, waving her hands in front of her face.
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I looked up to dozens of cormorants whooshing softly overhead.
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A spectacular Leonid storm in 1833 generated further anecdotes of meteors that swished, whooshed, or, in one case, ‘resembled the noise of a child's popgun.’
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I hate the delivery whoosh, but want the new mail ping.
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The train sped through the station with a whoosh.
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There was a wonderful 'whoosh' every time one of the blades came round.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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There was a whoosh that sounded like a supersonic jet.
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Barbara went out to the parking lot and a lot more men in suits with earpieces came down into the lobby and then "whoosh" - a huddle came out of the elevator, jumped into a car and was gone.
Susan Eleuterio: Being Barack Obama
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Incredible whooshes that sound like huge airliners amazingly turn out to be green-winged teals recorded from close range.
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No sooner do I lie him flat when, whoosh, he's on all fours again and crawling off at top speed.
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Then came the riders amid even louder cheers and whoosh! It was all over.
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Every morning there is utter chaos at the school: children crying, parents shouting, instructors sighing, skiers and boarders whooshing past and mini buses weaving.
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There was a great whoosh, as if someone had agitated the can.
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And then, just when he has finished building a double-digit lead in the polls, whoosh!
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DeAnn explained, My childhood home was also on a busy street and I can remember that first day struggling to keep my birthday hoop going around my hips in my frontyard while rush-hour traffic whooshed by.
Hooping.org | Blog | DeAnn DeLuna: Inside The Hoop
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There was a whoosh of water and a geyser effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Foods that go "whoosh" don't leave us with a sense of being well fed.
From 'The End of Overeating'
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Mommy Duck grabbed Chicken - feather Duckand out the door they went in a whoosh.
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Each black-belt spoke for five minutes, and then, whoosh, two or three hours were gone.
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Even more impressive is the car's overtaking performance once outside the city limits, where the boost from the turbocharger enables the car to whoosh past slower traffic in a very relaxed way.
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But he has also invented a flashing lollipop for school crossings, a ‘whoosh machine’ to propel pigeons from perches on buildings, a golf club trolley wheel-cleaning attachment and a telescopic light bulb changer.
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It lasted about 70 years and then, whoosh, it fell apart.
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Luxembourg is also a bit don't sneeze or you'll miss it, we turned out of the airport and whoosh, we're in Germany.
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There was a whoosh, a sound like a thick book being shut, and a stranger walked through the closed closet door.
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He again heard the whoosh of the crowbar, this time against the windshield, which buckled and creaked like a tired, wounded animal.
The equalizer
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In 10 minutes, you are whooshed from the desert floor at 2,643 feet in elevation to Mt. San Jacinto State Park at 8,516 feet.
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The fireball had been close-followed by some stub-winged whooshing nightbird or hog-faced bat, flicking low to Inman's head, causing him to duck and walk stooped for three full strides.
Cold Mountain
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The curtains whooshed back as Kira gave him that smile she reserved just for him, the one that made him think of marrying her every time.
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And just before the end, when it all seems to be going wrong… whoosh!
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Air laced with the smells of gun oil and candle wax whooshed out of the room.
Etched in Bone
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I managed to open the door and about three seconds later it went up with a whoosh.
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The train sped through the station with a whoosh.
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Whoosh! your lips expectorate a stream of self-igniting gasoline.
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With a ‘whoosh’, the dried wood and grasses caught fire, and the flames licked around the pyre.
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Standing at the base of one of the towers, there's only a gentle whoosh as the rotors sweep around.
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The sand disappeared in a giant ‘whoosh’ and the empty hemispherical sections returned together with a sharp clank.
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Basically, this consists of a large metal beaker and matching glass, the two of which can be jammed together when you come to whoosh up your ingredients.
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She heard the whoosh of a flushing toilet, and one of the stall doors banged open to reveal a girl with bronze skin and curly dark hair.
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The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet's contrails, whooshing along in impressive white streams.
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Or is it a triple CD packed full of interminable electronic bleeps and whooshes, both inaccessible and incomprehensible?
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I stopped talking, and relaxed in the cushy seat to hear the light whooshing sound of the train speeding along the track.
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A whoosh of freshly ground mocha coffee hits the nose and then, once the wine hits your mouth, it's joined by black fruits, liquorice, spice and a spray of refreshing acidity.
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She Is Blond Sin Dim, nephritic, yet single whoosh!
Elizabeth Bachinsky reads K. Silem Mohammad
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The rocking of the rickety, old train and the whoosh and whir of the wheels teased our weary bodies and bleary eyes.
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Nothing can be more annoying than to see bulleted text arrive animated with a 'whoosh' sound.
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Hearty Aussie reds like the latter go happily in a sangria-style mix - slip a couple of orange slices into each glass and add a whoosh of soda water, a clunk of ice-cubes and a slug of brandy if it's raining.
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John Howard won on his considerable strengths; he wasn't given an historic fourth term with a collective sigh but with an almighty whoosh!
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I heard the familiar whoosh of the fireplace, but didn't really register it until I heard the voice.
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One of the persistent legends that attaches to Saville, is that, like the author Douglas Adams, he loves the sound of deadlines whooshing past.
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From a whooshing, gurgling still comes the ringing, plaintive and mournful.
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His breath came in short whooshes from brown cheeks.
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Somewhere a child is crying, but the sound is drowned by the ‘whoosh’ of a single raindrop heading earthwards.
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The next thing there was a dull thud and a whoosh.
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Instead I picked up a sandwich and cycled through Yoyogi Park, whooshing through the drifts of orange-brown leaves.
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Then exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound.
The Sun
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The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet's contrails, whooshing along in impressive white streams.
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You can hear it slowly click on then, whoosh, full steam ahead.
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Nightworks is their debut album, redolent with thick house beats, whooshey keyboards, horns, saxes, scatting…
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A surge of compressed air whooshed through the line, flooding the Tank.
CORMORANT
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Oil whooshed up when the drill hit the well
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Then exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound.
The Sun
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A breath whooshed from my lungs as the weight of my body hit the ground, sinking into the softness.
Darkness Becomes Her
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Danlo listened to the wind rise and whoosh between the buildings.
The Broken God
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There are plenty of treats - from Mareys's bronze cast of a bird in flight, of which only three exist, to an opportunity to play with a zoetrope, praxinoscope and phenakistoscope (try saying those afterwards at the pub) to a cabinet showing the comic world's attempt to show motion via whoosh lines and multiple legs.
New Scientist - Online News
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Whoosh! The straw house falls down.
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The door whooshed open, and they ran into the corridor.
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Muddle the mint and the rest of the ingredients in the glass until the sugar has melted before topping up with crushed ice and a whoosh of soda water or sparkling mineral water.
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‘It appears like that, but it is just the rapid flare-up of flame, whoosh, it just goes up,’ Gould said.
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A perfect flight would send you whooshing down the slope, over the creek some 30 feet below then back to the starting point where small feet would clabber for purchase lest the voyage start all over again with less velocity.
Outfoxed Diary Entry
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All I catch is his name, Tim, and then he is off in a Lycra whoosh.
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For three weeks passengers will be whooshed at 1,000 miles per hour through the African skies, deplaning to take in the lions and ibex in the Serengeti and to bob under the spray of Victoria Falls.
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As Cezanne country whizzes past on the way home, I settle in and start to dream, colours blurring in the warmth of the mid-afternoon champagne whoosh.
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The soft whoosh of the grain drill, the muted jangling of the corn planter, the smell of freshly turned warm earth behind the plow, the warm sun on our backs.
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I once stood on this spot and watched a skein of migrating geese flap their way in perfect chevron formation through the great cleft of the Lairig an Laoigh below, their wings cutting through the air with a rhythmic whoosh.
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It is a place to escape to for days spent loafing in hammocks, meandering among the coconut palms in the garden or idling through pulp novels on the patio, all the time lulled by the pounding surf and the relentless whoosh of the trade winds.
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Many people get the virus, don't have symptoms and - whoosh - it's gone.
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The train sped through the station with a whoosh.
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Then came the riders amid even louder cheers and whoosh! It was all over.
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The Cape Cod trip seems to have dislodged some old memories - they come crashing down, a bit like watching the polar caps give way, whoosh!
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With a whoosh, a machine on the hangar wall came to life.
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Air whooshed from his chest and Nyte was left breathless, gasping and coughing for air.
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Then came the riders amid even louder cheers and whoosh! It was all over.
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And whoosh, the first day of the week winds to a close.
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Mrs. Williams took a deep breath and let it out in a whoosh.
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So, with the latter, the wizardry of special effects allows us to whoosh down gullets and cascade through neural networks.
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I don't have an effing thing to say about the occasion," grumbled Simmons, in his signature timbre, which is akin to whooshing gravel across a metal flatbed.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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Three hours to Paris on Eurostar, an afternoon wandering around the sights, and then --- whoosh --- back home for bedtime.
MAN AND WIFE
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You get a mouthful and when they put the flame thing near your face you whoosh it out.
Times, Sunday Times
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A whoosh of freshly ground mocha coffee hits the nose and then, once the wine hits your mouth, it's joined by black fruits, liquorice, spice and a spray of refreshing acidity.
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With a microphone submerged in frigid waters, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto captured whooshing currents, errant whale calls and crackling glaciers.
A Guide to This Week
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A kereru whooshed overhead this morning and a korimako was chiming from the branches of a nearby tree.
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Butterflies whooshed outward like gas molecules through a breech.
CYCLES • by Stephen V. Ramey
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The Hertfordshire countryside whooshes by in a smudge of muddy green and grey.
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Danlo listened to the wind rise and whoosh between the buildings.
The Broken God
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But then I woke up at 7am and whoosh, the tidal wave that is my to-do list flooded my thoughts and blind panic swept over me once again.
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And I miss the wonderful noise that a grand prix grid used to create, its individual components – the angry bark of the 1954 straight-eight Mercedes, the ear-splitting shriek of the V12 Matra of the late 70s, the eerie whoosh of the turbocharged four-cylinder BMW of the mid-80s – as distinctive as the instruments of an orchestra.
F1 grid loses its glorious blend of voices | Richard Williams
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Then exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh sound.
The Sun
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With a ‘whoosh’, the dried wood and grasses caught fire, and the flames licked around the pyre.
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Another man came to help, and together they unloaded the barrels-plainly heavy-from the mule, and upended them into the kettle, one at a time, with a great whoosh of pungent yellowish pinesap.
Drums of Autumn
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Jesse felt all his breath leave his body with a whoosh.
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Even the instrumental is all atmospheric whooshes and no concrete melodies.
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Why do all that clicking when you can just type 'gm' and whoosh you're in your gmail account?
GButts Gives You Quick Access To Your Favorite Google Services | Lifehacker Australia
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I stopped talking, and relaxed in the cushy seat to hear the light whooshing sound of the train speeding along the track.
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He points to a little button which allows air to whoosh out of the bellows so that they can be closed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The door opened and closed with a faint whoosh sound that surprised me.
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Most electronic music is still founded on blips, bleeps, whooshes, and other ‘spacey’ sounds.
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If Henry Adams were whooshed from his Washington of a century ago to our Washington of today, he would find it shockingly changed, except for the institutions of government.
How America Can Rise Again
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Then came the riders amid even louder cheers and whoosh! It was all over.
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The horrified landlord of the Victoria Inn at Salcombe saw water gush out of the loos and whoosh through the public bar.
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Turn your back for 5 minutes and whoosh, the sound of another policy announcement winging its way from Queen Anne's Gate.
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The grenade was sent on its way with a dull whoosh.
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She smiled as she listened to the crickets in the tall grass nearby and the soft whooshing sound of the leaves swaying gently in the breeze above her.
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The first pour and sniff reveal a pale straw colour, a constant stream of bubbles and a whoosh of extraordinary freshness.
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Among other segments, the boob-a-thon included Anna Nicole Smith pantomiming the various sizes of implants she has had using a "whoosh" - like noise and an all-bra fashion show with running commentary from a male audience member ( "Me like that one.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet's contrails, whooshing along in impressive white streams.
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I don't want to have to go through all of that again… I just wanna have one slice in the belly and whoosh!
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There are plenty of treats - from Mareys's bronze cast of a bird in flight, of which only three exist, to an opportunity to play with a zoetrope, praxinoscope and phenakistoscope (try saying those afterwards at the pub) to a cabinet showing the comic world's attempt to show motion via whoosh lines and multiple legs.
New Scientist - Online News
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Then, whoosh, they just up and disappeared again.
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I'm sure I appeared to possess the same panache quotient as the lady in that shampoo commercial, whooshing my coiffe as I glided down the aisle.
La dolce vita.
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He arrived at the briefing room, and the larger airlock doors, not pressurized at the moment, whooshed open.
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And the channel rail link wasn't even a dream then, but now runs through a cutting at the bottom of the village, with trains whooshing past every half hour of so.
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You hear of people saying och I've created this here vortex and whoosh there was a storm for days.
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As the lion and I depart the chamber I hear a tuneless toot of the whistle and the magical whoosh of the cloud of numbers.
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He could hear the sound whenever her brush intromitted its harsh _whoosh-whoosh_ and she paused to apply fresh soap.
Nicky-Nan, Reservist
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You know in old movies, they'd have a calendar that used to go whoosh!
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And then, as she whooshes by, she sees that the hitchhiker is a woman.
Some Fun
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He's gone in a whoosh, leaving the trio to dissect his speech.
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A stream of people whooshed by, pulling me along in the darkness toward the bus stop.
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There's not a tinkle, whoosh, or rattle that isn't illustrative.
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A kereru whooshed overhead this morning and a korimako was chiming from the branches of a nearby tree.
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For maximum impact you must disperse speakers round the room, so that when Harry's broomstick zooms overhead, you will feel the whoosh.
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The door whooshed shut, and the bus's tires skidded on the gravel driveway as the driver gunned the engine.
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New rides being offered for the first time this year include the Wave Runner ride an exciting family water coaster where participant whoosh down a trough of fast-moving water in a rubber dinghy.
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Led by Rahm Emanuel, a stalwart Clintonian factotum and grandee of the now obsolete DLC, the exodus from Clinton's campaign recalled the whoosh of gas escaping from a hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon.
Michael Carmichael: Obama's Pivot
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The powder instantly vanished with a loud WHOOSH, leaving behind an acrid smell and a small cloud of gray smoke.
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Heinze, 26, cost a shade under £7m during the summer, and then, whoosh, he vanished.
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And if they cavil at it, as MPs have cavilled and continue to cavil at the detection of their felonies, they may yet discover what the whoosh of the guillotine blade sounds like.
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He felt his heart pumping, the blood whooshing inside his head.
