How to Use whip through in a Sentence

whip through

verb
  • There is a howl whipping through the bare trees.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The group would arrive already tired, with smoke and wind whipping through the setup.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Wind whipped through the island, carrying some sprinkles of rain with it.
    — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • The last winds of winter whip through the trees, sending a confetti burst of blooms throughout the air.
    — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Orson discovered the cellar by whipping through his bedroom wall and then used it again to break himself out when he got locked in it.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Violent winds and lightning whipped through Joplin one day after the tornado.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • Other markets that had whipped through more violent moves over recent weeks showed some more strength or stability.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Donofrio said Thursday’s bout of weather could look similar to the storms that whipped through the region Wednesday.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • The tour begins in the old village to orient visitors before whipping through the more contemporary parts of town.
    — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The wind whips through my hair as the gleaming new fiberglass speedboat accelerates out of the calm bay and into open waters, striped in shades of turquoise, in defiance of the name.
    — Lauren Keith, Robb Report, 30 May 2026
  • As strong winds and severe weather whipped through Metro Detroit, communities began the big task of cleaning up the storm damage.
    — Elaine Rojas-Castillo, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The band whipping through Connecticut this week that really can’t be said to have burst from a large previously existing musical genre.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2026
  • New York City Times Square live cam Watch snow pile up in Times Square as wind whips through the Crossroads of the World.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • My favorite activity of all, though, was the late afternoon motorboat cruise, whipping through the river’s serpentine curves with thirsty elephants and water antelopes in the distance.
    — Travis Levius, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Situated high in the Andes, the area is nearly inhospitable with winds whipping through the mountains and temperatures plummeting.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The fashion statement of the rangy frontman served a more practical purpose when three-fourths through the two-hour show, a torrent of wind whipped through the stadium, bringing with it a chilly downpour that would last the duration of the concert.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • With snow whitening the field and wind whipping through the air all afternoon, Lindsey completed 18 of 24 passes in a safe diet of screen plays and out routes for 90 yards.
    — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • This is one of those days where some of the strongest winds whip through the San Bruno Gap towards SFO and other spots on the east side of the Peninsula.
    — Greg Porter, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2026
  • After many a setback, Soph somehow whips through assembling her ball (hehe) track and then getting both of her balls (hehe) into the target when Rizo, who was first to the puzzle stage, struggles mightily.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
  • While Glasnow was whipping through the Brewers, hard-throwing Milwaukee right-hander Jacob Misiorowski was striking out nine in his five innings.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Chris Ramirez Seventy-five homes in the Marathon County town of Ringle were damaged, many of them seriously, during a tornado that whipped through the area earlier in the afternoon.
    — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • With a medley of Michael Jackson hits playing, Petrosian — competing as a neutral athlete — whipped through her double axel, landed a triple lutz and capped the performance with a triple flip-triple toe loop that seemed downright effortless.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The New Jersey natives (and Giants fans) whip through various photo setups and ask for the score even when the answer hurts (the Giants lost to the Broncos in a 33-32 nail-biter).
    — Andrea Lavinthal, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Powerful winds have repeatedly whipped through the 80,000-person Black Rock City in northern Nevada, slowing arrivals and blowing over multiple structures.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Tens of thousands of customers lost power across the New York-New Jersey area after severe weather, including heavy rain, damaging winds and a tornado warning, whipped through the region overnight into Tuesday morning.
    — Mark Prussin, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Coach Spo’s home destroyed While Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra was flying back from a game in Denver on the team plane in November, a two-alarm blaze was beginning to whip through his Coral Gables mansion.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
  • By late October, 3I/ATLAS had whipped through perihelion, or its closest spot to our solar system's sun, at about 130,000 miles per hour (roughly 209,000 kilometers per hour), then disappeared behind the sun from Earth's point of view.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 2 Dec. 2025

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