whip through
phrasal verb
whipped through; whipping through; whips through
informal
: to do (something) very quickly
She whipped through her chores.
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Winds whipped through much of the Bay Area early Tuesday and dangerous surf continued to pound the beaches throughout the Northern California coast.
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Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
Snow buries vehicles and whips through the air Wednesday in Weed, California.
—Karina Tsui, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
Utility poles have also been ripped from the roadside, and a wire flies loose in the wind, whipping through the air and the heavy rain.
—Hannah Peart, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024
Later, over an eight-play, full-field drive, Maye routinely whipped through his reads and found an open Jalen Reagor to move the chains, even against blitz pressure.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2024
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Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
Snow buries vehicles and whips through the air Wednesday in Weed, California.
—Karina Tsui, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
Utility poles have also been ripped from the roadside, and a wire flies loose in the wind, whipping through the air and the heavy rain.
—Hannah Peart, NBC News, 16 Dec. 2024
Later, over an eight-play, full-field drive, Maye routinely whipped through his reads and found an open Jalen Reagor to move the chains, even against blitz pressure.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2024
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“Whip through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whip%20through. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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