whist

How To Use whist In A Sentence

• But he had to raise his voice to be heard over jeering and whistling from centre-right senators. Times, Sunday Times
• The figure slowly walked into the room whistling a familiar tune of one of his favorite bands.
• Tayside Police admit the whistle-blower's inside knowledge shows he has to be a high-ranking officer - at least an inspector and probably a superintendent.
• Folks may crow all they want about the roar of Niagara or the growlin’ of the sea—but give me a splendacious peal o’ stormbrewed thunder and your other nat’ral music is no more than a penny whistle is to a church organ! Nevermore
• My whistle, it appeared, would have to remain mostly unblown. Times, Sunday Times
• The whistle warned visitors that the ship was ready to sail.
• Steven added four penalties and Warren potted a drop-goal in a game which was in the balance right to the final whistle.
• The sound of the human whistle, like that in the most primitive instrumental forms - a whistle fashioned from a hollow tube of wood or straw - is made by the turbulence generated in an airstream at the narrow orifice formed by pursing the lips.
• From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings. Birdology
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