Sentence examples for whew from inspiring English sources

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"whew" is a word used in written English.
It is an exclamation used to express relief, joy, or exhaustion. For example, "Whew, I'm so glad I finished that project on time!".

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whew

interjection

An expressive sound made indicating the release of one's inner tension; the release of breath; an expression of relief.

  • (from strenuous labour) Whew! That box weighs a ton!

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"Man on the Moon... oh boy... whew, boy," were his words as the lunar module Eagle touched down.

It was hard to detach her from an entourage of admirers and paparazzi, but when I took her aside for a minute, she said: "Whew.

Let's try for better afterthoughts, some afterafters, such as wow, we won two different playoff series, or, yes, Manager Terry getting a raise and some handshakes yesterday, only with Sandy Alderson fainting at that press conference: oooh — get up, Sandy, whew!

In one installment, the character Jeff Redfern reads an article about Clark: " 'A brilliant, telegenic, Southern Rhodes Scholar, decorated Vietnam hero and ex-Supreme Commander of nato.' Whew!

CL: Whew.

"Those Clemente boys, whew.

When his coach recently said that Mr. Liu's back ailment was not a concern, you could almost hear the whew of national relief.

At this distance — considering the "whew!" factor of what might have happened to us all — I don't know whether to assign their scheme praise or blame.

"My defense is going to be whew!" Artest said.

And HAVE A GOOD MIND TO is a great entry but, whew, that is one heck of a partial (an entry that isn't a complete phrase in itself).

"Going down 300 points, I say: whew," Rob Master, North American media director for the giant marketer Unilever, said in a telephone interview on Thursday, referring to the decline of the Dow Jones industrial average, but "it's not like we're in an economic boom".

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