How to Use whippet in a Sentence

whippet

noun
  • Zeena the whippet is a very smart dog.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • So what’s sparking joy these days for whippets and Maine coons?
    — Jura Koncius, Twin Cities, 28 July 2019
  • Like greyhounds and whippets, sloughis were bred to chase prey over long distances.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 6 Jan. 2016
  • But, over the last few years, whippets have steadily become a drug of choice in rap.
    — Ben Dandridge-Lemco, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Will looking at a photo of a whippet wearing a tiny sweater help?
    — Amy Collier, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The runner-up was, for the third time, a whippet known as Bourbon.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 12 Feb. 2025
  • From a dead stop, a whippet can reach nearly 35 miles per hour in seconds.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 22 June 2018
  • There will be a whippet named Bourbon and a Pekingese named Wasabi.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2021
  • The model is a whippet, a sighthound breed known for its elegant and graceful movements.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In the montage that played, there were no hero shots of Ben as a whippet free safety for Harvard.
    — Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There were images of a whippet wearing a raincoat, rescue puppies on sandy beaches.
    — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Whippets and greyhounds will sometimes even leave their dinner unfinished.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, New York Times, 16 May 2017
  • Known as whippets, these canisters have been used as a recreational drug, especially among youths.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Lesbian Lighthouse, a whippet-fast farce about life in the New York arts economy.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 June 2022
  • The world record — set five years ago by a whippet named Cochiti in Washington state — is 31 feet.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Several participants brought dogs; even a whippet named Devo strolled the course.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 30 July 2017
  • Playing on the graceful silhouette of the whippet, these grey bookends are an elegant addition to any shelf.
    — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
  • According to police, the 7-year-old whippet rat terrier mix had escaped from her home in Wellesley.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In his recent songs and music videos, Galaxy Gas tanks and any mention of whippets have been noticeably absent.
    — Ben Dandridge-Lemco, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Wow, so there’s horse racing, greyhound racing, and apparently whippet racing.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Wow, so there’s horse racing, greyhound racing, and apparently whippet racing.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • It's become a popular party and rave drug, distributed in balloons or canisters, where they're called whippets.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Watching this special possibly has the brain-damage equivalent of doing ten canisters of whippets back to back.
    — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Doxie racing first started in Australia, just for fun, in the 1970s along with whippet and afghan hound racing.
    — Patsy Miller, star-telegram, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Graham has appeared on the cover of American Vogue and in runway shows alongside whippet-thin models.
    — Robin Givhan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Granted, not every woman in this vast, 500-square-mile metropolis looks more like a whippet than a Labradoodle.
    — Monica Corcoran Harel, Marie Claire, 24 Sep. 2013
  • In one photo, the two were doing whippets (inhaling nitrous oxide from small metal canisters) while on a boat, authorities said.
    — Joseph Serna, latimes.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Bono the Havanese took the toy group, Bourbon the whippet was named top hound, and Conrad the Shetland sheepdog won herding.
    — CBS News, 11 Feb. 2020
  • However, the second came courtesy of whippet Nathan Redmond, who is not really known for his strength, in fact, quite the opposite.
    — SI.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Likewise, a woman in Plympton, Massachusetts, is obscured by her whippets and greyhounds.
    — Brian Dillon, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2019

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