How to Use whoopee cushion in a Sentence

whoopee cushion

noun
  • Its inadvertent ability to double up as a whoopee cushion when sat on did not help its case.
    — Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
  • Jakubowski leads the way to the toy section, where a dad and his two little girls are gleefully trying out whoopee cushions.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The chattering teeth, whoopee cushions, rubber chickens and, yes, the fake vomit.
    — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Take, for example, a royal throne that doubles as a whoopee cushion and emits fart noises and a jester door that tells bad knock-knock jokes.
    — Lori Weisberg, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • For those who are, the effect is more like sitting on a slowly deflating whoopee cushion soaked in arterial spray.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Sometimes the game can have extreme twists that involve crazy things like snakes or spiders, but this one was only a pineapple, a whoopee cushion and a small lion figurine.
    — Alysha Tsuji, For The Win, 12 July 2018
  • Some of Don Poynter’s creations, it must be admitted, had a certain whoopee cushion quality.
    — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The first round of the NFL draft is a national holiday, and using your pick on a guard makes a noise that sounds very much like a whoopee cushion.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Detroit paced the Central for almost the entire season … only to trip over itself, fall down a flight of stairs coated in aioli, and land on a whoopee cushion in front of its crush.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Their slapstick routines, involving, among other things, a tuba, a whoopee cushion, and lots of splashing water, are well-crafted and genuinely funny.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Two films into his solo directing career, Cregger has established himself as an artist who uses convention as a whoopee cushion.
    — Andy Crump, Time, 9 Aug. 2025
  • After all, the largest knock on Sumlin has been his ability to go full whoopee cushion in November and December after strong starts.
    — Andrew Astleford, ajc, 4 Oct. 2017
  • But when his comedy isn’t rooted in drama, Polanski becomes the directorial equivalent of someone trying to get laughs with a whoopee cushion.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • At a hands-on exhibit about comedy props, guests can grab plastic anvils, whoopee cushions and other items and place them on interactive video tables to watch movie and TV clips that use those props in slapstick.
    — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 21 July 2018

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