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How to use whipsawed in a sentence

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Then he whipsawed back to the generous mood of a man who thinks he will soon hold some power in his hands.
He sees an increasing number of Saudis who are whipsawed between a new materialism and traditional values.
Consumers are also getting whipsawed by the stock market, which has failed to rally despite Fed rate cuts.
The first coal shipped from the valley was loaded into boats made of logs and whipsawed lumber and floated down the river.
All of this has left Black West Palm Beach spinning, whipsawed between runaway private development and an enduring legacy of political neglect.
The tech-services industry has been whipsawed as the red-hot demand of the late 1990s turned into the deep freeze of the past few years.
Ridge's statement may have whipsawed citizens, but what was the alternative?
He has been literally whipsawed by his caucus over the last year on this very issue.
Pension Funds were once again whipsawed in 2008 by poor market returns which decrease the value of assets.
The rough lumber had been whipsawed from trees the party had felled themselves.
But Tuesday's contrasting administration rhetoric about the war on terrorism underscores a problem that has whipsawed ordinary citizens for months.
Markets have whipsawed in response to announcements in Brussels: managers who have a good month often suffer the next.
Many skis were just a whipsawed piece of lumber four to six inches in width with an upturned tip, but they worked well enough to transport the skier to where he wanted to go.
Corporate America faces, in consequence, the prospect of being whipsawed between mistakes, interpretations and corrections until their system of securities regulation settles again into relative stability.
When it came to Kennedy's character, you'd feel whipsawed judging it.
A country used to a feeling of command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.
Examples from Classical Literature
From out the clump of mountain ivy that skirted the hill above the whipsawed cabin there had darted a shadow.
The cheery lamplight that suddenly burst forth through the small square window of the whipsawed cabin below reassured her.
The message had warned her to retreat, to return to the whipsawed cabin and wait.
Little Hallie, too, was quite as mysterious as the whipsawed cabin in which she lived.
Uncle Isaac and I borrowed the saw and went to work and whipsawed lumber for sluice boxes.
It seemed to her that the hard, whipsawed planks were pushing through the soft flesh to the bones.
When we get to Lake Linderman, and the trees are chopped and whipsawed into planks, I'll boss the building of the boat.
On the doorstep of the whipsawed house she found Uncle Billie Gibson.
Oil rose on Friday in late short-covering, ending the week higher after a volatile session whipsawed by European economic concerns.
Shifting sentiment about the problems in Europe whipsawed the market during the week.
For a second day, investors were whipsawed by the biggest stock swings in two months.
A series of contrasting reports whipsawed financial markets, leaving stock prices basically unchanged in early afternoon trading and bond prices mixed.
Consumers are being whipsawed by the powerful marketing pitch of buy-one-get-one-free offers for nonessential items at a time when they are paying more for must-haves.
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