How to Use whiplash in a Sentence

whiplash

noun

• He got whiplash when his car was rear-ended.
• It’s been a bit of whiplash this week the world of Russian oil.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
• The Rangers aren’t alone in dealing with a case of Guardians whiplash.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
• All the while, the song beats your brain in with dark, clubby bass beats and whiplash synths.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2022
• Did that feel like whiplash or was that a nice soft landing?
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• Tagovailoa was spun and driven to the ground on a sack, causing the back of his head to hit the turf from the whiplash.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
• During the display flight the bird climbs, the wings are smartly cracked like a whiplash, and the bird glides down on stiff wings.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Nov. 2023
• Tua fell backward and crashed to the turf, creating a whiplash that banged his head.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2023
• But this week, the Shiv-Tom whiplash continued and ended on a new low.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2023
• The whiplash in hiring is hitting tech and crypto hard.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 17 June 2022
• The back-and-forth has created whiplash for many Israelis.
  — Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
• The whiplash has left many schools scrambling to adopt ever-changing rules.
  — Collin Binkley, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
• Where Johnson scores over Christie is in the whiplash of his storytelling.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• But the White House’s outreach to Riyadh has provoked a fair amount of whiplash in Washington.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Perhaps more than anything, employees felt a sense of whiplash at the rapid rise and fall.
  — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• The easiest way to describe it is sort of a whiplash but in a good way, in a challenging, fun way.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• The policy whiplash also caught the health system off guard.
  — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• The tonal whiplash in Mr. Fieri’s company can be dizzying.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2022
• Part of this change in mindset lies in the emotional whiplash many experienced in the past year.
  — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2022
• Texas has gone from a flash drought to flash flooding in only 24 hours; a real weather whiplash.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022
• The Snidely whiplash, trying to keep us from doing anything right.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
• In what feels like weather whiplash, Friday brought record lows to some parts of the Bay Area — just two weeks after the same areas saw record highs.
  — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2022
• The other two came after the torque of firing shots created a whiplash effect.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2023
• But there’s a kind of emotional whiplash that comes as teens see peers’ cutest pics interspersed with cries for help.
  — Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• That would have been enough to give any artist whiplash, but there’s been so much in between, including some dark moments.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2022
• Hayley Smith wrote about why that drought-flood whiplash is so dangerous.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• From song to song, the album approximates the emotional whiplash of falling in and out of love.
  — David Peisner, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• One of the other challenges early adopters of these AI solutions may face is tech whiplash.
  — Ray Walia, Cpa, Cma, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The force of my back hitting the wall had given me whiplash, my neck jerking forward and back after the collision.
  — Tove Danovich, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
• So many of the songs on Stick Season are about feeling stuck somewhere, too, so is there a sense of whiplash going from that to traveling all the time?
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024