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
  • Even Mills had whiplash due to the star’s acting chops.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024
  • All the while, the song beats your brain in with dark, clubby bass beats and whiplash synths.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Leave that whiplash style of storytelling to The Last of Us.
    Leah Marilla Thomas, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Wais said, still shocked by the whiplash of Kabul’s swift fall.
    Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The whiplash of the NFL world can make one slightly nauseous.
    Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Tapia left the game after the play with a little bit of whiplash and a sore neck.
    Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Did that feel like whiplash or was that a nice soft landing?
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
  • It’s the sort of whiplash plot Hollywood movies are built on.
    New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Two days later, though, a kind of civic whiplash set in, as Daunte Wright was laid to rest.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
  • 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
  • It’s a whiplash-fast thriller with a dose of clear-eyed social justice.
    Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • 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
  • The competing messages — one of hope and one of warning — may seem like a recipe for whiplash.
    Alex Putterman, courant.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Then, in January of 1977, a kind of slow-burning whiplash struck the nation.
    Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But the White House’s outreach to Riyadh has provoked a fair amount of whiplash in Washington.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • Susanne Lyons has grown used to the emotional whiplash.
    Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The plot here makes whiplash turns, loop de loops and sudden reversals.
    Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Between the lines: The moment might seem like a bit of whiplash for anyone watching Williams' tenure in the district attorney's office.
    Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
  • But with a possible new trial approaching, Clove is forced to revisit the past in this smart, whiplash suspense.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'whiplash.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: