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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of whisk.

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Examples

  • The sound of her name whisked by her, caught by the wind and then lost in the rush of leaves scattering around her feet.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • The sound of her name whisked by her, caught by the wind and then lost in the rush of leaves scattering around her feet.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • The sound of her name whisked by her, caught by the wind and then lost in the rush of leaves scattering around her feet.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • Nobody had seen what had happened and the train whisked briskly away round

    Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

  • "I have learned everything, everything!" said Cleek, and pouncing upon his portmanteau whisked out a couple of pairs of handcuffs.

    Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

  • Individual scenes suffer as a direct result, with episodes trailing off and getting whisked from the viewer’s attention before they’ve reached their dramatic or comedic payoff.

    Review: Couples Retreat « Screaming Blue Reviews 2009

  • But individual scenes suffer as a direct result, with episodes trailing off and getting whisked from the viewer’s attention before they’ve reached their dramatic or comedic payoff.

    DVD Review: Couples Retreat « Screaming Blue Reviews 2010

  • National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger later described how the President and his party were “whisked from the airport to the Presidential Palace in a helicopter that seemed to go straight up out of range of possible sniper fire and then plummeted between the trees of [President] Thieu’s offices.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger later described how the President and his party were “whisked from the airport to the Presidential Palace in a helicopter that seemed to go straight up out of range of possible sniper fire and then plummeted between the trees of [President] Thieu’s offices.

    Hillary "misspoke" (update 2) Not a sheep 2008

  • She was at her own gate, when a voice calling her whisked her about as if by magic.

    Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

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