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Another word for whiz

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Verb

  1. To make a continuous low-pitched droning sound

    See also:

    sounds

  2. To make a sharp sibilant sound

    See also:

    sounds

  3. To move swiftly

    Idioms:
    See also:

    move

Noun

  1. A continuous low-pitched droning sound

    See also:

    sounds

  2. A person with a high degree of knowledge or skill in a particular field

    See also:

    ability

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Another word for whiz

Noun
Verb
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Sentence Examples

  • She's a whiz on a roof.

  • Oh, gee whiz, no.

  • "This boy is a whiz at puzzles," Fred said as the Deans joined the group.

  • At the foot of the mountain there was a railroad, and the children watched the trains whiz by.

  • Thus we feel it in its motion as wind, and observe the dynamical effects of this motion in the quiver of the leaf or the motion of a sailing ship. It offers resistance to the passage of bodies through it, destroying their motion and transforming their energy - as is betrayed to our hearing in the whiz of the rifle bullet, to our sight in the flash of the meteor.

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