Example sentences for: whiz

How can you use “whiz” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I do not mean to jeer, but the point is that, beginning with Future Schlock (endorsed by Richard Nixon and later by Newt Gingrich), every technological change is hailed with a whiz, boom, bang, etc.

  • A conceit this fragile needs to whiz along to keep our disbelief in suspension, but Meet Joe Black grinds on for three hours (longer than either Beloved or Saving Private Ryan ), and Pitt acts as if he has leased the screen by the year.

  • A history of this sort of folly might start with some of the failed schemes of the New Deal economists before describing the way that the "whiz kids" led LBJ astray on both the Vietnam War and the war on poverty.

  • In Frederic Wakeman's 1946 novel, The Hucksters , the hero, played by Clark Gable in the film version, is a tough-guy creative whiz who gives up on advertising as soon as he realizes that he's genuinely afraid of losing the big soap account.

  • He and his sidekicks, especially Al Gore and Bobby Rubin (treasurer, math whiz, and "Most Likely to Succeed"), mix easily with almost everyone.


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