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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of whoosh.

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Examples

  • A breath whooshed from my lungs as the weight of my body hit the ground, sinking into the softness.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • 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 2009

  • Butterflies whooshed outward like gas molecules through a breech.

    CYCLES • by Stephen V. Ramey 2010

  • 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 arhyalon 2009

  • 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.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Jmilb’s Review Forum 2009

  • Air laced with the smells of gun oil and candle wax whooshed out of the room.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Air laced with the smells of gun oil and candle wax whooshed out of the room.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Air laced with the smells of gun oil and candle wax whooshed out of the room.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Air laced with the smells of gun oil and candle wax whooshed out of the room.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • 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 2010

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