I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A bullet whizzed past my ear.
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I stared out the window, watching as kids on bicycles and skateboards whizzed by.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the end of the week, Emma was whizzing down green runs, turning superbly and tackling the lifts with ease.
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Flashbacks to stilted junior-year productions started whizzing by faster than you can say Grosse Pointe Blank.
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I felt I could whizz it round the country lanes on school runs and trips up to town.
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She had only ever seen them at a distance before, or whizzing by in their cars.
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Smoking on a train journey, looking out at the countryside whizzing by.
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The armor meant that bullets were expected to be whizzing through the cockpit.
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We had scarcely got in there before the train came whizzing past at a great rate...
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She's a whizz in the kitchen.
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When marketing whizzes renamed the fruit the kiwi, says the newsletter Turn Signals, sales shot up all over the world.