whistling

Blume's speech was repeatedly interrupted by jeering and whistling, a person present at the meeting told AFP, and workers held aloft signs saying: "Don't balance your books with our jobs".

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Newer cars and trucks employ opposite frequency technology, which lowers road noise, silicone-based coating on door seals that cuts virtually all high-frequency whistling, and noise-dampening designs on windows, to name a few technologies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

The squarish contours offered a thousand places for whistling and buffeting to hide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

There’s a perfectly non-racial explanation for all of the cat and dog whistling.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Going to school?” she asked, whistling curiously as she spoke.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

It rose flapping its wings and disappeared into the clouds, to a send-off of applause, whistlings, handkerchiefs, drumrolls, and the sprinkling of holy water.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

And there were birds—at least, curiously lovely pipings and twitterings were all about him though he saw no creatures—thin elfin whistlings like fairy bugles sounded softly.

From Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

There were many whippoorwills calling out there in the woods but he thought this was a double call and that between its whistlings a man might have counted five.

From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey

All through the day sounded long, sweet whistlings from the brushes; then later, loud, laughing shouts of bird triumph on every hand.

From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The wind was murmuring in the reeds, and the whistlings of aquatic fowl made a plaintive music.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena