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whip - use in sentences
Object
- ass: So, how was he able to whip the asses of two heavily armed robbers?
- hysteria: Challenge the hysteria whipped up by the press and politicians for political gain.
Converse of object
- resign: June 1934 Joseph Hunter ( MP for Dumfries ) resigns the Liberal whip to join the Liberal National party.
- crack: We say things like she really cracked the whip over me, or I'm whipped!
- defy: Two TSSA members defied the whip - Ray Gunter, who resigned from the Parliamentary Labor Party 32 and Tom Bradley.
- withdraw: I called it a vindictive, mechanical way they withdrew the whip from Len Hurst.
Adjective modifier
- Unionist: May 1935 Katherine Marjory Stewart Murray, Duchess of Atholl DBE ( MP for Kinross & West Perthshire ) has the Unionist whip removed.
- chief: The Alliance Party chief whip, Mr David Ford, yesterday welcomed the aims of the report.
- Conservative: Cllr Reg Colwill Conservative group whip, Brent Expensive penny?
Modifies a noun
- coral: A little deeper there is a forest of whip coral covering 30 or more square meters of the hard coral bed.
Noun used with modifier
- three-line: In the House of Commons the Tories imposed a three-line whip to refuse the Bill of Rights a first reading.
- newmarket: Of complaints followed the four refuse newmarket challenge whip.
- bull: Haggis did a couple of spots with his gorgeous UV bull whip with some stunning visual effects.
Preposition: in
- cross: Scarborough whip in a fast cross which could have been dangerous.
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