WHIP in a Sentence

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For WHIP, below is one of 223 sentences:
He touched up the mare with the whip and she trotted briskly across Five Points and across the railroad tracks that cut the town in two.

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 Meanings and Examples of WHIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
whip
 v.  take or move by a sudden motion
 v.  clean completely
Classic Sentence: (204 in 14 pages)
1  Ethan, with a touch of his whip, roused the sorrel to a languid trot.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Give me your gown, Scarlett, I will whip the lace for you after prayers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  "I'll do no such thing," she said, touching the horses lightly with the whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  The noise cracked like a whip in the still room and suddenly her rage was gone, and there was desolation in her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Charles' words were confirmed as Peter climbed onto the box and took the whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  As they progressed down the street, through the sucking mud, Scarlett bubbled over with questions and Peter answered them, pointing here and there with his whip, proud to display his knowledge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Nothing is worth what is happening to us now and what may happen, for if the Yankees whip us the future will be one of incredible horror.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  And, my dear, they may yet whip us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  He touched up the mare with the whip and she trotted briskly across Five Points and across the railroad tracks that cut the town in two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  As they dashed down the street and bumped over the railroad tracks, Rhett applied the whip automatically.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  He only laid on the whip with regularity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  She laid the whip on the tired horse's back and tried to urge him on while the waggling wheels rocked them drunkenly from side to side.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Scarlett laid the whip across the weary rump of the horse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  The exhausted horse did not respond to the whip or reins but shambled on, dragging his feet, stumbling on small rocks and swaying as if ready to fall to his knees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Turning deliberately, Scarlett raised the tree limb she had been using as a whip and brought it down across Prissy's back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The racer lashed the horse across the back with a whip.
2  The cruel master beat his slaves mercilessly with a whip.
3  If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pam.
4  They're trying to whip up support for their candidate.
5  I can easily whip up an omelette.
6  The driver's whip snapped and our carriage ran fast.
7  During the last decade the right wing of the party has held the whip hand.
8  Please remember to whip, not just delete, these files before leaving computer.
9  The wind used to whip across the plain in this season.
10  How egocentric is it for these postmodernist writers to whip up these verbose tomes without the slightest concern about reader engagement?
11  Their team can whip ours at volleyball, in fact it has chance to get champion.
12  He would whip them into a frenzy with tirades against blacks and their traitorous white sympathizers.
13  Her hair whipped around her face in the wind.
14  When I turned round, I found that she had whipped off to avoid awkward questions.
15  The party leaders whipped the members in for the vote.