How to Use bullwhip in a Sentence

bullwhip

noun
  • So, who will be the next star to wield the worn fedora and bullwhip?
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Next to it, a uniformed man in a Libyan coast guard boat was yelling and wielding a bullwhip.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • The chunky cotton rope in my hands pulls taught and slingshots me through the apex of the turn like the end of a bullwhip.
    — Colin Clancy, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2022
  • On a coat hook by the door hangs a fedora, a bullwhip and a leather messenger bag.
    — Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2024
  • While at dinner, the man told police, a male acquaintance showed him a bullwhip.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Bob Perry was making donations as fast as the snap of a bullwhip.
    — Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Arcs of electricity bolted from it, blue bullwhips that flashed out from it and left thunder in their wake.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
  • There are a couple of good card games, a fight between two men each brandishing a bullwhip (one is Sgt.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
  • At that point, small shifts in consumer demand can once again create big shocks to the supply chain thanks to the bullwhip effect.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 5 May 2021
  • At one of those protests, a White man cracking a bullwhip was caught on video as others with him taunted protesters.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
  • When a moving object, such as a bullet, breaks that threshold, there is an audible shock wave that sounds like the crack of a bullwhip.
    — Jeff Johnston, Field & Stream, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Of course, there’s also Indy’s iconic bullwhip, which can be cracked to stun enemies and force them to drop weapons.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
  • By decoupling the supply chain at these nodes, a company prevents the bullwhip effect.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • But earlier this year, Amazon's growth slowed to the lowest rate in two decades, as the bullwhip of the pandemic snapped.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2022
  • But earlier this year, Amazon’s growth slowed to the lowest rate in two decades, as the bullwhip of the pandemic snapped.
    — Karen Weise, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022
  • As the players filed on the bus to leave, silent and somber, the wind caused the two American flags, hoisted at the cemetery, to crack like bullwhips.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2019
  • To ensure that, the network twisted its rules and contorted itself into a bullwhip to make sure Hill knows what not to say.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 16 Oct. 2017
  • McCay climbed onto the stage at the Palace Theater in Chicago, bullwhip in hand.
    — Chris Baker, WIRED, 24 May 2010
  • Powerful muscles may have even allowed the dinosaur to whip its tail at supersonic speeds, creating a loud, bullwhip-like sound.
    — Washington Post, 7 June 2019
  • Knight, who once brought a bullwhip to practice and took a gentle swipe in the direction of Calbert Cheaney, a Black player.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Indeed, there is a logical connection between prison discipline and the use of bullwhips on prisoners.
    — Mia Armstrong, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2019
  • To help understand how impactful an increase in consumer demand can be on supply chains, consider the bullwhip effect.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Neglect of pipeline inventory, or increased ordering to make up for the pipeline lag, is one of the major causes of the bullwhip effect in supply chains.
    — Willy Shih, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Its rings of pickled bullwhip kelp provide crunch on salmon burgers or chopped up and folded into tuna salad, and the bullwhip hot sauce combines the brininess of seaweed with the spice of piri piri.
    — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 2 June 2022
  • And the shocks reverberated further throughout the supply chains creating a bullwhip effect.
    — Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The bullwhip effect takes hold in supply chains because long lead times are required to build capacity and significantly increase output.
    — Tom Goldsby, WSJ, 14 June 2021
  • An election year has combined with higher interest rates and the bullwhip effect to create softness in demand and a lack of general consumer confidence.
    — Joel Scutchfield, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The structure somewhat resembles a bullwhip in that each successive vertebra in the tail is roughly 6 percent smaller than its predecessor.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Prisoners, presumably fellow Roma to judge from their kerchiefs, peer from their barracks as the kapos wield their bullwhips, while wraithlike captives walk single-file past a cart full of corpses.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Chipmakers fear the bullwhip effect Manufacturers do have some reason to fear committing to new factories.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2021

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