whistle-stop
Example Sentences
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For decades it was a destination as opposed to a whistle stop on the way to a national championship.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2025
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
"He's one of the reasons we're in this whistle stop," Amber said.
From Joe Burke's Last Stand by Wetterau, John Moncure
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
