whistling
Example Sentences
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At the same time, they create a high pitched sound by whistling inside the larynx.
From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026
As Ms. Kilpatrick notes, Ravel sometimes deflected praise for “Boléro,” his most famous work—and yet “he was unashamedly delighted when, passing a building site . . . he heard three construction workers whistling his tune.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Sánchez heard a whistling sound pass above him, and 10 more after that.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Merck shares have floundered this year, as the company speeds like a whistling locomotive toward the expiration of the patents protecting its megablockbuster cancer immunotherapy Keytruda.
From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025
One was for a spyglass, one for a whorly, whistling shell, and one for a fat red pocketknife in a sheath.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
