whistling
Example Sentences
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Woodstock gets a solo moment too, whistling on Dog Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” set to a perfect one drop beat as Charlie Brown spirals out in a chicken suit while rubber chickens sway.
From Los Angeles Times
Her husband, Joseph Hougebe, remembers whistling into the night, eagerly waiting to hear a paddle tapping against the hull of a dugout canoe -- coded signals in the darkness.
From Barron's
After some scattered cheering, the sound of whistling cut through the stadium music.
When she inhales, a whistling noise tells me her asthma is acting up.
From Literature
I saw a few scrawny boys leaning out the open upstairs windows, hooting and whistling at the fallen pickpocket on the street below.
From Literature
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