whistle-stop
Example Sentences
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India's president has made a whistle stop tour of an island earmarked for multi-billion dollar development that experts warn could wipe out the indigenous tribe which calls it home.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
Passengers from miles around traveled to the little Nippeno whistle stop with their freight and cattle to catch the train.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2017
In 1981, they invited Baker to Princeton for a chance to perform the experiments, one whistle stop on a reproducibility tour of several U.S. campuses in the Northeast.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 23, 2016
“We have to start looking at families now,” Trump said at a Saturday whistle stop in Iowa, referring to suspect Syed Rizwan Farook.
From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2015
Why should he hang around this whistle stop for a wasted week-end, holding kitchen conversations with the unmighty living?
From The Mighty Dead by Gault, William Campbell
