How To Use Whistling In A Sentence

  • Instead of whistling up some B-52's, the chairborne warriors in thr E-Ring took the exiles seriously. THE NEWS BLOG
  • The figure slowly walked into the room whistling a familiar tune of one of his favorite bands.
  • She had a rather nice voice and was also known for whistling. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
  • But he had to raise his voice to be heard over jeering and whistling from centre-right senators. Times, Sunday Times
  • She painlessly moves back and forth from fiddle to guitar, singing to whistling, without so much as a flinch.
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  • I'd like to smile and skip down shopping lanes whistling cheerfully but it just isn't in me.
  • It was a cavern in the side of a mountain, overshadowed with palm trees, at such a distance from the cataract that nothing more was heard than a gentle uniform murmur, such as composes the mind to pensive meditation, especially when it was assisted by the wind whistling among the branches. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
  • Referee Declan Corcoran had a busy match, whistling for 45 frees and flashing no less than eight yellow cards in what was a very stop-start game throughout.
  • The faint whistling of birdsong awoke Marcs as it crept into his cell.
  • But he had to raise his voice to be heard over jeering and whistling from centre-right senators. Times, Sunday Times
  • This section of road was flat and not having the wind whistling through our helmets we became acutely aware of just how isolated and tranquil our surroundings were.
  • Scouts never grouse at hardships nor whine at each other, nor_ swear _when put out, but go on whistling and smiling. Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns
  • Whistling a quick tune or two can really help you keep a positive frame of mind when life's little niggles get to you.
  • A day had hardly passed, after the second rejection of Mr. Canning at her door, before the thought of whistling him back again flashed luringly across Carlisle's mind. V. V.'s Eyes
  • The bomb exploded, sending shrapnel whistling through the trees.
  • And off we strolled, whistling merry Christmas tunes, and with only the very slightest of hops, skips and jumps in our step.
  • Does your chest wheeze or make whistling sounds even when you do not have a cold?
  • The only noise was the whistling north wind that made a coat feel good while my legs browned from a blazing sun. The Road To El Dorado
  • We might as well have been whistling in the wind. Times, Sunday Times
  • I started whistling, as I lined the capsule up with an open magnetic bay, and prepared to bring it in for a perfect landing.
  • Birds are whistling, got to be early. The Sun
  • Colm won first on the drums and second on the bodhrán, while Robert took first place in the whistling competitions and third in the flute competition.
  • Cecil was whistling away when suddenly he gave a tremendous "whew" of astonishment and sprang to his feet. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
  • `Fratelli D'Italia, l'Italia s'è desta, dell'elmo di Scipio, S'è cinto la testa... "while Signora Cara snored, whistling gently. THE GOLDEN LION
  • Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. Doug Larson 
  • You're likely to see waders as well as a variety of herons, stilts, and even the endangered West Indian whistling duck.
  • See that girl barefooting along Whistling and singing, she's a-carrying on Got laughing in her eyes Dancing in her feet She's a neon diamond She can live on the street Chorus Hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party Every day Hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day Well, everybody's dancing in a ring around the sun Nobody's finished, we ain't even begun So take off your shoes, child And take off your hat Try on your wings And find out where it's at The WELL: The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
  • A selected audience duly provided accompaniment to the chancellor's speech with whistling and catcalls.
  • He enters the classroom in a blinding heavenly light, to the accompaniment of whistling winds and rolling tumbleweed that usually accompanies Clint Eastwood in a spaghetti western.
  • It is, in truth, almost as bad as it sounds; but this song has wormed its way into my affections, probably something to do with the whistling. Readers recommend: songs with special guests
  • The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully. The Thorn Birds
  • They were standing in a butcher shop, with the wind whistling through the cracks around the door.
  • Yet while they sing naturally, songbirds are also trained by their owners, who spend many hours whistling tunes at them, or playing birdsong on tape as examples to follow.
  • Whistling when he sees something he likes, this baby dino is quite a flirt! Robot Dinosaurs In Love « Isegoria
  • Strong north-westerly winds whistling around Blackpool's cavernous Winter Gardens this week appear to have blown away the Conservatives.
  • Presently she began to chirrup to the bird: soon her chirrup grew clearer; erelong she was whistling; the whistle struck into a tune, and very sweetly and deftly it was executed. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • When did you last hear a milkman whistling a current pop tune? Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the more memorable scenes in the book, at least for me, has Smith observing a working-class woman whistling a tune while hanging out the washing.
  • Dean wasn't just whistling Dixie when he made his infamous remark about reaching out to bubbas bearing Confederate flags.
  • A good number of duck species such as dabchicks, garganey, pin-tailed, lesser whistling teal and shovellers arrive at the Appalangulam tank located inside the Guindy National Park.
  • Quantum whistling is analogous to a phenomenon in another macroscopic quantum system, a superconductor, which develops an oscillating current when a voltage is applied across a non-conducting gap.
  • Mrs. d' Urberville instructs Tess to whistle to the bullfinches that Mrs. d' Urberville treats as pets and Alec surprises Tess as she's practicing her whistling in the garden.
  • Alone in a suburb of the same city, my husband away, one afternoon I mistook birdsong for a person whistling inside the house.
  • Ahwan is remembered as a place where the keen, raw wind seems to come whistling gleefully and yet maliciously from all points of the compass, seemingly centring in the caravansarai itself; these winds render any attempt to kindle a fire a dismal failure, resulting in smoke and watery eyes. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
  • Hayley's husband Greg walked along side her for the whole 5km cheering and whistling, providing the encouragement she needed to win.
  • The waterfall area had forktails (upstream from the falls), Malayan water shrews (in the waterfall lake after sunset), and Malayan whistling-thrush (in the forest about 300 m downstream).
  • “Sifr”: whistling is held by the Badawi to be the speech of devils; and the excellent explorer Burckhardt got a bad name by the ugly habit. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And so you may be apprised of everything, there will come for you a black horned beast, not overbig, which will go capering about the piazza before you and making a great whistling and bounding, to terrify you; but, when he seeth that you are not to be daunted, he will come up to you quietly. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • He turned with a skip and shambled away, whistling.
  • Noah was whistling softly under his breath, his fingers tapping gently to the beat of a song on the radio.
  • When did you last hear a milkman whistling a current pop tune? Times, Sunday Times
  • It was his blood pulsing around his body; it was the whistling of his nerves. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fulvous whistling-duck's name comes from the hoarse whistling sound it makes and from its coloring.
  • With our backs to the chilling wind whistling in from Damascus, we ski north-west, towards Tripoli.
  • As warm spring temperatures return to the breeding grounds so do the fulvous whistling ducks.
  • This is what we call whistling through the graveyard. David Horowitz Freedom Center
  • However, I can't help but think this is what they call whistling past the graveyard. Obama Discusses Wright Controversy In New Web Video
  • Others bark like ` toy-dogs, 'while still other kinds utter a whistling noise, from which one species derives its trivial name of ` whistler' among the traders, and is the ` siffleur 'of the Canadian voyageurs. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
  • He has a point: it would hardly be right to wear a sparkly suit and tight trousers while singing stark, sepulchral songs about death, pain and sorrow in a voice like the wind whistling through his old Appalachian bones.
  • His classmates told me how good Robert was at whistling and he whistled a tune for me.
  • Soon the fire was lit, a tea kettle whistling. Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son
  • Through the closed windows came the occasional ‘peep’ of a fogbound wayfarer whistling for a hansom.
  • Oliver at last relieved his host by swaggering off, imitating as well as he could the sturdy step and outward gesture of his redoubted companion, and whistling a pibroch composed on the rout of the Danes at The Fair Maid of Perth
  • And the Wanderers' club skipper insists he is not whistling in the wind.
  • The crowd is rapturous, whistling and shouting for more, and by the side door the lads are practically mobbed.
  • Its cheerful whistling is audible in our house throughout the day. This weekend
  • Builders are renowned for wolf-whistling at any woman who walks by.
  • At the hippodrome on the city's edge, thousands of cheering and whistling spectators watched about 50 riders, many in red-and-black traditional robes, compete furiously at buzkashi.
  • It's time to intervein on McCain,,,, and Palin,, that racist dog whistling is exactly what David Duke and those other friendly neighborhood folks in the white robes say to make sure some wacko gets the message and takes care of the uppity nigger. McCain: "Who Is The Real Barack Obama?" McCain Supporter: "Terrorist!"
  • Weary, listening to the whistling and the shuffling of feet, felt a queer, qualmy feeling in the region of his diaphragm, and he yielded to The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
  • * whistling innocently* super fun better than sex in alleys all of the above mood: still recovering I lied.
  • His voice was slightly metallic, air whistling through a trachea-ring.
  • Meanwhile Ballina is still whistling for funding for a marina at the local Quay.
  • The women stare indifferently as catcalls and whistling burst loudly from the dark interior of a taxi.
  • But at the 1975 one, sheilas were still whistling to the same tune.
  • These symptoms last a day or 2 and are followed by worsening of the cough and the appearance of wheezes (high-pitched whistling noises when breathing out).
  • He was whistling softly to himself.
  • [301] In 1827 Scott was one day heard saying, as he saw Peter guiding the plough on the haugh: -- "Egad, auld Pepe's whistling at his darg: if things get round with me, easy will be his cushion! The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
  • Each week the whistling dustman came down the back garden, hoisted the full dustbin on his shoulder, carried it up the garden and tipped the contents into the dustcart.
  • Who can ever forget Jo in Little Women, who was really Louisa, the girl who, when reproved for whistling by Amy, the art-loving sister, says: ‘I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!’
  • They come chanting songs, beating drums, blowing horns and whistling to spur on their heroes.
  • That man in the Day-Glo hard hat wolf-whistling is now an urban regenerator and the tempting cleft peeping from his waistband announces his urban regenerator's bum. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Small measures, whistling in the dark, when it comes to the hugeness of disaster. Luanne Rice: No Japan is an Island
  • We were trying to throw the poles aside while whistling a merry tune.
  • So there I was, hands stuffed in the pockets of my dark blue sweat pants, whistling cheerfully and thinking of escape with all the zest of a death row convict.
  • Martin Kaymer Takes Home The Wanamaker Trophy; In a three-hole playoff, the German golfer beat Bubba Watson to win the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.
  • Tunguska event"; fire and "depopulation" - "An ear-piercing" whistling "sound, which might be understood as being a manifestation of the electrophonic phenomena which have been discussed in WGN over the past few years; the sun appearing to be" blood-red "before the explosion. Signs of the Times
  • Katie heard the distinct sounds of water gurgling and wind whistling though caves in the rock.
  • Then a magpie began to pipe his arpeggios, which sounded sweet and clear in the morning air; and this seemed to be the signal to start a chorus of whistling and shrieking up in the thick boughs, where a flock of paroquets were hidden; and a glow in the east made the morning grey look so opalescently beautiful that it was hard to believe there could be any danger. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales
  • The whistling sounded like feedback, and his hammering on the piano became a dying round of applause.
  • The wind would be whistling through the trees, and a hoot owl would be singing his song. Christianity Today
  • Tinnitus is a condition where the sufferer hears intermittent or continuous ringing, hissing, whistling, roaring or buzzing noises in one or both ears.
  • Referee Brian Crowe started as he meant to go on: whistling for even the slightest indiscretion.
  • She was, however, uneasy when she heard the strange whistling sound produced by their irregular passage through the dark night air, and when the violence of their movements made the basin oscillate, she lay down tremblingly at the bottom of her golden basin, and then carefully gathered her garments around her, lest they should come in contact with the dark man. The Princess Ilsée: A Fairy Tale
  • So, in a nut shell, I had hardened myself to these cat-calling, whistling, yoo-hooing yo-yos.
  • Now came the sound of somebody whistling, and seconds later the whistler himself stepped into view. COLDHEART CANYON
  • He called her from the Whistling Goose pub in Hull where he was drinking with a group of people, including Niall.
  • The whistling sounded like feedback, and his hammering on the piano became a dying round of applause.
  • He was whistling cheerfully as he started down the sidewalk.
  • You've been whistling that same tune all morning. Knock it off, will you?
  • There he was, mopping the deck after that freak storm that had just hit, whistling a bawdy melody that he'd heard in a barroom once, when he spotted her.
  • As he crossed the floor towards the departure lounge Jago was whistling softly. A SEASON IN HELL
  • Whistling was, however, an accomplishment of which we were rather proud, as we considered ourselves experts, and beguiled many a weary mile's march with quicksteps -- English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish -- which we flattered ourselves sounded better amongst the hills of the Highlands of Scotland even than the sacred bagpipes of the most famous Scotch regiments. From John O'Groats to Land's End
  • They started whistling and hooting and yelling at me in Spanish.
  • The moment Qambar's hard, sly face appeared on the screen, the gloomy living room lit up with hoots, howls, clapping and whistling.
  • There came a sudden tremendous whistling rush of air, like Concorde landing, and a voice thundered... `Alec! THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
  • The hoarse grating sound of the saw, the whistling of the plane, and the stroke of the mallet denoted the presence of the carpenter; and the sharper clink of a hammer told of old Fogy, the family "milliner," being at work; but it was not on millinery Fogy was now employed, though neither was it legitimate tinker's work. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
  • A sharp bark erupted along with the whistling, she didn't pay much mind to it and thought she'd imagined it.
  • The former is a jazz march parody that layers high-pitched whistling flute over a muted trumpet and slow, rolling drum hits.
  • He surprised himself by whistling as he began the walk from his house to Janice's.
  • The boys took deep breaths and started whistling.
  • It is known in Hawaiian legend by the name pupu kani oe, meaning the shell that makes a sound like a long whistling vibration, he said. Starbulletin Headlines
  • Lashing whips, hollow gunshots, meaningless choruses, whistling, echoing pipes, tubular bells and stylophones are all tipped into the collage.
  • What a stamping and a stomping and a whistling. Times, Sunday Times
  • Julius smiled and began whistling an old tune he liked as he walked down one of the many corridors of the colony.
  • I can still recall that gelid winter morning, with the cold wind whistling around my ears.
  • I sat there, with the sun beating down on me, the wind whistling in my hair and the sound of a buzzard overhead looking for prey.
  • She heard the wind whistling through the trees and the howl of a distant wolf.
  • The word rankled deeply as he went downhill with his hands in his pockets, whistling determinedly. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern
  • That is what I call whistling," said he, after he had repeated the signal thrice; "and now to cover, to cover, or Whitefoot will not be shod this day. Kenilworth
  • I might as well be walking around with my college scarf, crest blazing, whistling a tune.
  • Whistling, the merchant threw himself against a particularly large pile, relishing in the feeling of comfort, wiggling out of his overly large boots and stretching.
  • But he had to raise his voice to be heard over jeering and whistling from centre-right senators. Times, Sunday Times
  • A whistling east wind drove us along the beach. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was even whistling to myself as I loitered past the end of Hay Hill, and then my roving eye chanced to fall on a certain lighted window, and I bore up short, thinking hollo, what's this? Watershed
  • Yet, even while he was weighing all the chances, he smiled to himself as he recalled the ineffectual little whistle that had gone out on the whistling wind. On the Firing Line
  • Katie heard the distinct sounds of water gurgling and wind whistling though caves in the rock.
  • You're likely to see waders as well as a variety of herons, stilts, and even the endangered West Indian whistling duck.
  • The range of music is staggering: whistling soloists, xylophonists playing polkas, John Philip Sousa leading his band through famous marches.
  • Sighing and whistling through her teeth, Mrs Saito climbed into the Dakota and carefully decanted the scattered phosphate into a bucket. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • This is not quite whistling in the dark but it does seem wishful. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Capella Palatine, which from pavement to domed ceiling is all gold: one really feels as if one was sitting in the heart of a great honey-comb looking at angels singing: and _looking_ at angels, or indeed at people, singing, is much nicer than listening to them, for this reason: the great artists always give to their angels lutes without strings, pipes without vent-holes, and reeds through which no wind can wander or make whistlings. Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
  • Time after time he rocked on to the back foot to send the ball whistling through mid wicket and backward point.
  • We progress through days of calms, settling down into the sea's rhythm, sleeping on three-hour watches, ignoring the rasp of ropes in wooden blocks, the whistling kettle, the glow of the paraffin light in the saloon, or the biting cold.
  • Whistling sika deer in the UK have confused local mountain rescue teams, who have been searching for humans who may be in harm, after they heard the sounds of what they thought were emergency whistles being blown. Distressed Human or Sika Deer?
  • With that she walked away whistling a tune off the top of her head.
  • In the middle of the night, Shotgun oozed up onto the foot of the bed and sprawled out lazily, pushing me off to the side, grum-pling his annoyance that I was taking up so much room; every so often, he farted his opinion of the spaghetti sauce, then after a while he began snoring, a wheezing-whistling noise. The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection
  • He heard the whistling stop and felt a quick swoosh of air.
  • The brass blew huskily, the strings eked out whistling, bleak, high harmonics. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was whistling softly to himself.
  • Somebody had procured an aluminum bat, and the traditional thwack surrendered to a whistling hum.
  • When did you last hear a milkman whistling a current pop tune? Times, Sunday Times
  • A cool wind was blowing down over the long harvest fields from the rims of firry western hills and whistling through the poplars. Anne of Green Gables
  • IN front of Molly, the path, deep in silvery orchard grass, wound through the pasture to the witch-hazel thicket at Jordan's Journey; and when she entered the shelter of the trees, Gay came, whistling, toward her from the direction of the Poplar Spring. The Miller of Old Church
  • The whistling winds and sheets of rain mean our sash windows have a life expectancy of two years before they rot. Times, Sunday Times
  • I keep whistling the magnificent Eric Idle soft-shoe number with which Life of Brian draws to a close.
  • NICOSIA, Cyprus — A British journalist offered a $100 reward Wednesday for the safe return of Coco, the whistling parrot of the foreign press corps who was abducted by gunmen from a west Beirut hotel in last week's fighting. Archive 2009-08-01
  • Tunguska event"; fire and "depopulation" - "An ear-piercing" whistling "sound, which might be understood as being a manifestation of the electrophonic phenomena which have been discussed in WGN over the past few years; the sun appearing to be" blood-red "before the explosion. Signs of the Times
  • Then, from behind him, far off, he heard a faint whistling as of air flowing through fipple pipes. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Wander among the trees at sunset, with the birds wheeling and whistling overhead, and see if you don't hear the sound of children laughing.
  • We heard only the swirling water and the cold wind whistling through the tall cottonweeds.
  • Besides plain whistling, there were warbles (made by blowing jerkily) and trills (made by rolling an "r" while blowing); by blowing patterns of high and low notes of varying style, most anything that needed to be communicated on shipboard could be said. Archive 2008-06-01
  • Land," called the aeronaut, his voice small against the whistling of the air over the wind-screen. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • The glass was shattered so I had to stand in the rain and shout over the whistling gale. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • All you could hear was the wind whistling through the stadium
  • The wind would be whistling through the trees, and a hoot owl would be singing his song. Christianity Today
  • Then flash after flash cut the darkness, and _crack, crack, crack_ came the reports of the rifles, as the men fired in what they believed to be my direction; but I heard no whistling bullet, and the firing ceased as quickly as it had begun, for there was the risk of my pursuers inflicting injury upon their fellows who led, and whom I could hear thundering along behind me, while with voice and knee I urged Sandho on at his greatest speed. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
  • A small pale brown and maroon-chestnut coloured duck, the whistling teals appear feeble.
  • He marched off, whistling a merry tune.
  • Hundreds of Rockhopper Penguins and Black-browed Albatrosses sit on rocks and tussock clumps, wheezing, clucking, and whistling. Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica
  • Then Kriti met a goatherd whistling and hooting at his bleating goats.
  • Maude left to tend the teakettle, which was whistling merrily.
  • You get the wind whistling around it and you are snug and warm. Times, Sunday Times
  • And---" From the life-support cage came a bellow of rage, and then an eerie indrawn whistling sound, and then three harsh growls. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
  • The whistling winds and sheets of rain mean our sash windows have a life expectancy of two years before they rot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Among other questions, parents were asked whether their child had had ‘a wheezy or whistling noise while breathing’ since the previous follow up.
  • Byatt almost doubled his tally seven minutes later after a fine run ended with his shot whistling over the bar.
  • He took a last look at the shaded green garden and left, whistling in an off key an untuneful air from a roofless farce comedy.
  • Mr. Trancas was still outside the house whistling happily, bur his footsteps had stopped, and Lenny could h, ear keys jingling. THE TEACHER
  • I stood before the mirror in the hallway, fixing my tie, whistling.
  • With the crowd jeering and whistling, the USA pulled away in the fourth quarter to secure victory.
  • The mountains had always been my refuge; in the wind whistling through the crevices, I have long found peaceful reassurance.
  • Crossbow bolts filled the air, making lethal whistling noises as they whizzed past.
  • A lovely pop confection, that whistling riff has been stuck in my head for the last 20 years.
  • He had lots of them and spent most of the day whistling and shouting at them. Times, Sunday Times
  • If one wanted time and space, a good place to find it was the churchlike solitude of acres of bare vines where the only sounds were the whistling wind and the sweet cries of the first birds of spring. The Viognier Vendetta
  • The wind picks up through our circle, huddling our clothes to us, and there can be heard in it the faint, restful remains of a note, as if the air had rushed through a whistling bridge before reaching us.
  • Without a forecasting framework its monetary policy committee would be whistling in the dark. Times, Sunday Times
  • Danny strategically played the Kaya song from his Kaya album and prolonged it till dawn as a way of bidding farewell to 2005 as he welcomed 2006 amid ululations and whistling among his fans in the packed hall.
  • The whistling winds and sheets of rain mean our sash windows have a life expectancy of two years before they rot. Times, Sunday Times
  • “Land,” called the aeronaut, his voice small against the whistling of the air over the wind-screen. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • ‘Clearly, the whistling and clacking disturbs the workplace and disrupts communications,’ the judge ruled.
  • The 11th is a crisp fall morning with the sun glinting off the East River from a spotless hard-blue sky and a brisk nor'wester whistling through the concrete canyons, raising everyone's spirits and somehow conveying a sense of promise. Tony Hendra: No Terror Funding? Consider the October Surprise 2008
  • William returned, whistling in the manner of a newly prosperous protagonist in an Ealing comedy. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • You get the wind whistling around it and you are snug and warm. Times, Sunday Times
  • Others bark like 'toy-dogs,' while still other kinds utter a whistling noise, from which one species derives its trivial name of 'whistler' among the traders, and is the 'siffleur' of the Canadian voyageurs. Popular Adventure Tales
  • Stephen came strolling in, whistling a tune he had just heard on the radio.
  • Whistling bowerbirds and whip-cracking riflebirds complement parrots and honeyeaters.
  • Alphanderry began whistling then, and this high-pitched sound was as sweet as any music that ever flowed from a panpipe. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
  • For instance I find it likes very much to kind of kick off right away beyond the showery curtain with sopping up your skin's steam, naked as a newly inflated rainbow, but who wouldn't want to burst forth whistling for tea from such a top advantage? All About That Place
  • The crowd cheered, whistling and clapping their hands.
  • The only sound to be heard was the quiet whistling of the wind through the trees and the occasional owl hooting somewhere off in the distance.
  • If any human acts may loosely be called causeless, they are the minor acts of a healthy man; whistling as he walks; slashing the grass with a stick; kicking his heels or rubbing his hands. Orthodoxy
  • In conditions of unbelievable misery, with rain, sleet and hailstones whistling about their ears, the effete foreigners somehow put the balaclava-covered Brits to the sword.
  • More of the bullets seemed to be whistling past the gaping holes rather than creating any kind of impact with the afflicted target.
  • And when Tim Hagan, with straight left for the hundredth time to bleeding nose and mangled mouth, and with ever reiterant right hook to stomach, had him dazed and reeling, the breath whistling and sobbing through his lacerated lips — ­was no time for succor from palaces and bank accounts. CHAPTER IV
  • However, only moments into the performance, the horn began to make a sound like a whistling teakettle, getting louder and louder.
  • The weather contributes to the feeling with winds whistling through the towns and rain lashing against our windows.
  • There were roars, applause, hurrahs, horn-blowing and whistling when he finally got there.
  • They broke into spontaneous clapping, cheering and whistling when the Band of the Irish Guards played Happy Birthday for the Queen at the end of the parade as a surprise.

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