How to Use bullwhip in a Sentence

bullwhip

noun

• The crack of a bullwhip may soon echo around the Palais.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
• It’s more of a crack, like a bullwhip, a low, crisp crackling.
  — Sam Stanton, sacbee, 23 Jan. 2018
• The chunky cotton rope in my hands pulls taught and slingshots me through the apex of the turn like the end of a bullwhip.
  — Colin Clancy, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2022
• So, who will be the next star to wield the worn fedora and bullwhip?
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 5 Apr. 2018
• Next to it, a uniformed man in a Libyan coast guard boat was yelling and wielding a bullwhip.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 11 July 2017
• As the players filed on the bus to leave, silent and somber, the wind caused the two American flags, hoisted at the cemetery, to crack like bullwhips.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2019
• McCay climbed onto the stage at the Palace Theater in Chicago, bullwhip in hand.
  — Chris Baker, WIRED, 24 May 2010
• But earlier this year, Amazon’s growth slowed to the lowest rate in two decades, as the bullwhip of the pandemic snapped.
  — Karen Weise, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022
• But earlier this year, Amazon's growth slowed to the lowest rate in two decades, as the bullwhip of the pandemic snapped.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2022
• Bob Perry was making donations as fast as the snap of a bullwhip.
  — Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2022
• At that point, small shifts in consumer demand can once again create big shocks to the supply chain thanks to the bullwhip effect.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 5 May 2021
• While at dinner, the man told police, a male acquaintance showed him a bullwhip.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• There are a couple of good card games, a fight between two men each brandishing a bullwhip (one is Sgt.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
• Marchers screamed as the troopers advanced, firing tear gas and wielding bullwhips and tubing wrapped in sharp barbed wire.
  — al.com, 19 June 2019
• At one of those protests, a White man cracking a bullwhip was caught on video as others with him taunted protesters.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
• When a moving object, such as a bullet, breaks that threshold, there is an audible shock wave that sounds like the crack of a bullwhip.
  — Jeff Johnston, Field & Stream, 8 Oct. 2019
• To ensure that, the network twisted its rules and contorted itself into a bullwhip to make sure Hill knows what not to say.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 16 Oct. 2017
• The saga’s fourth film, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, was released amid heavy speculation that Ford was too old to still be swinging from a bullwhip — and that was 15 years ago.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2023
• The soundtrack from his highlight reel of slaps sounds like the constant cracking of a bullwhip and he’s used his heavy hand of justice to defeat every cherry-cheeked challenger in his path.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 19 Mar. 2021
• The soundtrack from his highlight reel of slaps sounds like the constant cracking of a bullwhip and he's used his heavy hand of justice to defeat every cherry-cheeked challenger in his path.
  — Dan Gelston, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• Some examples: Sell both kidneys, start a polka band and wrangle armadillos with a bullwhip.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2018
• Neglect of pipeline inventory, or increased ordering to make up for the pipeline lag, is one of the major causes of the bullwhip effect in supply chains.
  — Willy Shih, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Powerful muscles may have even allowed the dinosaur to whip its tail at supersonic speeds, creating a loud, bullwhip-like sound.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• Prisoners, presumably fellow Roma to judge from their kerchiefs, peer from their barracks as the kapos wield their bullwhips, while wraithlike captives walk single-file past a cart full of corpses.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020
• Indeed, there is a logical connection between prison discipline and the use of bullwhips on prisoners.
  — Mia Armstrong, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2019
• The shot of a young Indy wasn't the only fun bit of nostalgia in the trailer, which features many callbacks to the original films — from the beloved fedora and bullwhip to ancient artifacts, daring stunts, Nazis, and a giant booby-trap ball.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2022
• To help understand how impactful an increase in consumer demand can be on supply chains, consider the bullwhip effect.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 7 Sep. 2022
• And the shocks reverberated further throughout the supply chains creating a bullwhip effect.
  — Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• The structure somewhat resembles a bullwhip in that each successive vertebra in the tail is roughly 6 percent smaller than its predecessor.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2022
• The food sector is seeing a version of what supply-chain experts call the bullwhip effect, where companies that have pulled back their operations seek to rapidly scale up on signs of improving demand, leaving suppliers scrambling to keep up.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 21 May 2021

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024