Jerked in two directions at once

Usage examples of whipsawed.

The door to the inbound bag room was a heavy steel slab, but it might as well have been balsa wood the way it whipsawed back and forth in the storm.

The Reverend Starbuck, oblivious of the bullets that whipsawed around his horse, cheered his Northerners on.

She fell only inches, dangerously close to getting pulled under the stern section as it whipsawed around.

Respiratory functions were on the high side, but sustainable, as hormone levels whipsawed between apparent panic and anger states.