How to Use whammy in a Sentence

whammy

noun
Definition of whammynext
Synonyms for whammynext
  • Then there are the loans, which can be a triple whammy.
    — USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The next drive was a double whammy for the Ravens, or a triple whammy.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Getting in the kitchen can be a triple whammy to nourish the holy trinity of self-care for me.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Better to avoid the double-whammy of having to cancel the same event twice.
    — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
  • But then she got socked with a triple whammy of disasters.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
  • The triple-whammy began with an apocalypse of smoke and fire.
    — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 5 Apr. 2020
  • As bad as the double-whammy of Covid and the pox has been, future viral outbreaks might be even worse.
    — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2022
  • That’s the double whammy of a stereotype that happens also to be true.
    — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 11 Mar. 2017
  • The group fires him, and Lucifer, whose powers are back, hits Jimmy with the desire whammy.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • This Prime Day was a double-whammy, then, as every kind of were available, and some of them at the keenest prices yet seen.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • The reasons are a triple-whammy from the pandemic, experts say.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • In the South and Midwest, a triple whammy of snow, ice and sleet is hammering the region and could leave many without power.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • But nothing beats the pandemic in terms of its unique double-whammy last March.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
  • What this means is that U.S. exporters are faced with the double-whammy of a stronger dollar and higher fuel costs.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • As a junior, Philyor had a breakout campaign, but a double-whammy of hits to the head at Penn State knocked him out of the next week’s game.
    — Jon Blau, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2020
  • This recipe makes the most of it, featuring a triple whammy of coconut in the batter—flakes, extract and milk—and a coconut cream cheese frosting.
    — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 5 Mar. 2010
  • Maple trees, McCormick said, were stressed from the double-whammy of events that lend themselves to a shortfall of moisture in the ground and a lack of the freezing and thawing cycles the plants need.
    — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Texas residential ratepayers are about to be hit with a triple whammy.
    — Robert Bryce, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Elite fans got a surprise quadruple whammy of good news on Friday morning.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The pandemic really took off in the U.S. at the tail end of the flu season early this year, so there weren’t that many double-whammy patients.
    — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The Browns had the double-whammy in practice on Thursday when Hodge tweaked his hamstring and Taylor suffered a neck injury.
    — cleveland, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Angel Strunk is facing the quadruple whammy of being forced to pay her rent this month, come up with a damage deposit and pay a first and last month's rent for a new rental.
    — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 1 Mar. 2023
  • A double whammy of unexpected weather destroyed most of the peach crops in the Southeast.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2017
  • So that’s a triple whammy: out-of-control forest fires, the Covid pandemic, and influenza.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The star, who will soon be hitting the big screen in Marvel's Madame Web, took some time out of her busy schedule to call her mother to celebrate the double-whammy news.
    — Jabeen Waheed, Glamour, 13 July 2022
  • Trump had delivered a double whammy of pulling out of the Pacific trade agreement and the Paris climate accord.
    — Froma Harrop, The Denver Post, 8 June 2017
  • But the whirlwind that is Masters Week and being a first-time father can exhaust anyone and might be too big a double-whammy to overcome.
    — Jesse Smithey, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Mika told me she was exhausted by the double-whammy of losing her father and best friend only two months apart.
    — NBC News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Wow, talk about a retail double-whammy headache that turned miserable!
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Mark Kelly Virginia’s off-year elections are regularly worth watching as a political harbinger, but this year’s could be a triple whammy.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 June 2023

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