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- verb Present participle of
whiz . - verb Present participle of
whizz .
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Examples
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The idea of getting up at five and whizzing from the gym to the board meeting, of getting your bottom down to size and suddenly deciding your soul needs work.
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I’ve discovered tylenol Simply Sleep is actually pretty good for stopping the 3am brain whizzing (i.e. you wake up, but you can fall back asleep). 1/2 a pill does it for me. (that’s if I’m not wasted on alcohol, of course)
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He's also smart not to give the audience time to be dizzied by all the financial jargon whizzing by.
NYT > Home Page By DAVID ROONEY 2010
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Tip half the chickpeas in with the veggies and whizz the other half in the food processor before adding them too (the whizzing is a nice textural touch, but not strictly necessary).
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Allegra McEvedy 2010
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& ordered him to surrender George said he was almost scared to death at the old sword whizzing around his head but he jumped into the brush & shot the Yank dead of his horse, our loss in killed & wounded was very light One of Comp.
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He heard an odd "whizzing" sound as if cable were being unspooled from somewhere.
Darkness of the Light David_Peter 2007
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Ed, I know you got to get through security as all the people are kind of whizzing past you there.
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The point that the story will need to address issues such as "whizzing" is a good one, but isn't that level of detail extraneous in a hook?
HH Com 562 Miss Snark 2006
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If I didn't know better, I would mark the "whizzing" non-urgent whereas a "Wheezing" call is very urgent.
bettyalready Diary Entry bettyalready 2005
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This rumbling or thundering noise continues for some time, and then decreases as the stone falls against first one hard rock and then another at a greater and a greater depth, and at length, when it has for some time been falling, the noise stops with a kind of whizzing or a hissing murmur.
reesetee commented on the word whizzing
In coinmaking, the process of mechanically moving the metal of a lightly circulated coin to simulate luster. It's usually done using a wire brush attachment on a high-speed drill.
April 21, 2008