Example Sentences

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Whistled Taft strategists as they rounded a curve: "The best chance the party has to win the 1948 election is to stage a completely unbossed convention."

From Time Magazine Archive

Where my fathers walked, driving the plough; Whistled their hearts out—who whistles now?—

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various

But hark, how the blast Whistled then as it passed!

From Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir by Murray, Robert F. (Robert Fuller)

The manufacturer Whistled to himself, and giving his horse a smart cut with the whip, drove on faster than ever.

From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

The Potter heard, and stopped his wheel, His apron on the grass threw down, Whistled his quiet little tune, Not overloud nor overlong, And ended thus his simple song: Stop, stop, my wheel!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth