How to Use whipsaw in a Sentence

whipsaw

1 of 2 noun

• For hospitals and health systems, the past two years of Covid-19 have seen a whipsaw of crises.
  — Dwight Raum, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• The asset’s whipsaw ride over the past six months has caused some investors to doubt the value of trading it.
  — Bloomberg.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The whipsaw crest of the Rocky Mountains is visible from a hundred miles away.
  — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
• The Angry Birds Movie 2 A tonal whipsaw that doesn’t have conviction to invest in its own premise.
  — SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• The shifting supply outlook caused a whipsaw in the market.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• The whipsaw action came just one day after a historic rout that saw the blue-chip index drop by 2,013 points, the most ever.
  — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2020
• A whipsaw hit sent Tom Brady’s legs one direction and his upper body the other, leaving him facedown in the turf.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2016
• The decision for the president to leave the White House for the hospital capped a day of whipsaw events in Washington Friday.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2020
• So yes, the effect was a rapid whipsaw effect of the recommendations, but the basis was still science.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2020
• One described the effect as a whipsaw, saying the company and union would try to convince workers to accept a bad deal or see jobs shipped away.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2019
• The whipsaw of weather and market forces make for long seasons of uncertainty.
  — Autumn Schoolman, Indianapolis Star, 4 Feb. 2020
• Wall Street stocks wavered following days of whipsaw moves, while oil prices rallied.
  — James Willhite, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
• This year’s winter whipsaw triggered the latest in a string of painful crop losses that have hit Georgia’s most profitable fruit crops in recent years.
  — Drew Kann The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 4 Apr. 2023
• The threat of such moves can provoke price swings, whipsaw capital flows and fuel volatility.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2015
• The whipsaw changes roiled agriculture markets, and not everyone who makes a living off the land retained the same fealty to Trump as Wacker.
  — Mathew Brown and Matt Volz, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2018
• When the history of American hardship is written in some distant decade, two recent events may capture the whipsaw forces of the age.
  — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• There's a name for the birds' whipsaw-like flight formations: murmurations.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021
• Stocks finished Wednesday lower after a whipsaw end to the day's trading in the wake of the Fed's latest interest-rate decision.
  — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
• The president himself has been prone to such language at times, creating a whipsaw effect.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• Theirs is just one L.A.-area restaurant that has felt the whipsaw back-and-forth of pandemic regulations and struggled to stay afloat while keeping patrons safe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Investors are about to buy billions of dollars in mainland Chinese stocks even as trade tensions whipsaw markets.
  — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 16 May 2019
• The president’s rhetorical whipsaw came against the backdrop of tense but cordial meetings in Biarritz, France.
  — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2019
• The president’s rhetorical whipsaw came against the backdrop of tense but cordial meetings in Biarritz.
  — Michael D. Shear, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2019
• The rapid shift from provocative steps to summit diplomacy illustrates the whipsaw approach the President has adopted on the global stage.
  — Jeremy Diamond and Kevin Liptak, CNN, 15 May 2018
• The stop-and-go nature of this pandemic has created a whipsaw in the pilot training world, Smith said, with students quitting flight school and then rushing back in recent months.
  — Dallas News, 24 Sep. 2021
• On Capitol Hill, lawmakers were left in varying states of consternation by Trump’s whipsaw on guns.
  — Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
• On Capitol Hill, lawmakers were left in varying states of consternation by Trump's whipsaw on guns.
  — Author: Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
• Our yearly fluctuations are dramatic, and even an average year feels like a bit of a whipsaw.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• Power and advantage whipsaw from one side to the other over the coming episodes, and everyone’s loyalties are tested.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2021
• Across Wall Street, traditional traders were mostly helpless, while the engineers best equipped to explain the whipsaw weren’t in a position to do anything about it.
  — Liz Hoffman and Telis Demos, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2018

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whipsaw

2 of 2 verb

• Markets have been whipsawed for months by the ups and downs in the dispute.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• And they will be whipsawed and beaten by the process for anywhere from two to 12 years.
  — Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2017
• Fortunes have been made — and lost as that market has whipsawed.
  — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2020
• Investors will focus on the yen, which gained the past four weeks as fears over the health of an array of lenders whipsawed markets.
  — Ye Xie, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2023
• Stock markets have been volatile this summer as traders have been whipsawed by the turns in the trade war between the world's biggest economies.
  — Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2019
• Stocks whipsawed Friday, with the Dow swinging more than 800 points from its session high to its low.
  — Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
• Financial markets have whipsawed this week as traders struggle to price in the risk of the outbreak.
  — Amy Gunia, Time, 31 Jan. 2020
• The talks in the Austrian capital were the latest steps in a process that has whipsawed oil markets for weeks.
  — Wael Mahdi, Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2018
• Stocks have been whipsawed this month -- out of six sessions so far in October, the S&P has already seen four days of greater-than-1% moves.
  — Sarah Ponczek, Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• No trial court would allow itself to be whipsawed this way.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Jan. 2020
• Contrast that with now, when the Dow’s being whipsawed by Trump’s own plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and the tweets have dried up.
  — Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018
• Within a half hour, the stock market had lost much of those gains, and continueed to whipsaw between gains and losses through the morning.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2020
• Biotech investors are in neck braces from being whipsawed back and forth as the industry’s focal length moves in and out every few years.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
• Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine and markets are whipsawing around as investors try to make sense of it all.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• Of course, the easiest way to whipsaw across the country like this is with a tour operator: Try luxe outfit Roar Africa.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2018
• On the morning of the fake crash Thursday, Truman kids were whipsawed between the theatricality of the event and its grim message.
  — Kathy Boccella, Philly.com, 5 May 2018
• The global pandemic has swung us from pessimism to optimism as we near the end of the long dark tunnel, only to whipsaw us back again.
  — John Pierce, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• Roller coaster continues Stock markets have been volatile this summer as traders have been whipsawed by the turns in the trade war between the world’s biggest economies.
  — Alex Veiga, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019
• Many are concerned that they will get whipsawed as different White Houses pull in and out of such global agreements.
  — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• The late hour minimized unrest in a country that has been whipsawed by antigovernment protests.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 31 July 2017
• Many investors are turning to real-estate stocks as a safe haven during the U.S.-China trade dispute that has been whipsawing the stock market.
  — Esther Fung, WSJ, 21 May 2019
• Some of the big-name startups expected to go public early this year have slowed their rush to market as stocks continue to whipsaw.
  — Katie Roof, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• As stock prices whipsaw, some traders have increased their holdings of alternative assets like gold to hedge their bets.
  — Fortune, 9 Mar. 2022
• When the market hasn’t been whipsawed by the trade drama, it’s found comfort in strong corporate earnings and U.S. economic growth.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• But the bigger culprit, observers say, is the erosion of the state in a nation whipsawed by economic crisis and corruption.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
• As social media companies banned him for his posts leading up to the insurrection, Trump lost the connections that gave him the power to whipsaw the world.
  — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 3 June 2021
• Investors continued to tamp down their fears of an all-out trade war between the world’s two biggest economies and bought stocks that had been whipsawed by the threats the U.S. and China have leveled at one another.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• Even the weather has raised alarms, whipsawing from sunshine that frames the Golden Gate Bridge against blue skies in postcard perfection to fierce storms that have flattened tall trees throughout the city.
  — Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Throughout the 1970s and after, these debates whipsawed U.S. policy.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Nvidia shares whipsawed in early after-hours trading as investors digested the numbers, before rising more than 10% by 5 p.m. ET.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024