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
She heard a cheerful whistle from the road without and remembering the package in her hand she flung it high over the wall and heard its soft thud, and the whistle stop.
From The Green Rust by Wallace, Edgar
