Sentence examples for whammy the from inspiring English sources

You know it's a double whammy, the penalty [and sending off].

"It was a triple whammy — the accolades, the dismissals, the hormones, all at the same time," she said.

It's a double whammy: the more coal we extract, the more forest we lose, and that too will add to global warming".

Making time for people was really important to me and also energising, so it was a double whammy: the guilt and energy loss.

Faced with this triple whammy, the Academy may have no option other than to roll over and have its tummy tickled.

The sequence of moods and styles seemed haphazard at first, but the last two movements delivered such a psychic double whammy — the Fascistic march followed by a desperately lovely lullaby for cello (dayflies) — that the structure felt secure.

"Nobody predicted the double whammy of the burst of the housing bubble and the recession and the job loss all combined.

With regard to the whammy effect, the present parallel model simulates the effect, clearly demonstrating that it cannot be used to arbitrate between serial and parallel models.

After the triple-whammy of the Royal Wedding, the Jubilee and the Olympics, The Royal Baby shows how far we've fallen back into our forelock-tugging habits.

If you put non-expert celebrities together with gratuitous sex in ads, such as Paris Hilton in the infamous Carl's Junior ad, you get the double whammy - the negative multiplier.

"It's like a double-whammy," the defense lawyer Abe Bailey said.