whistle-stops
- present tense form of whistle-stop (3rd person singular).
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On the other, it celebrates the American vernacular in the form of Central California whistle-stops, working-class bungalows and Joan Blondell’s impersonating a tipsy hash-slinger out for a night on the town.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2017
After all, coastal hamlets, mountaintop villages, and desert whistle-stops have inspired American artists for generations, among them, the Impressionists of Connecticut’s Old Lyme Colony and the minimalist installation artists who more recently gentrified Marfa.
From Time • Jan. 26, 2015
Before long, Ms. Raimondo has been cautioning in whistle-stops here and across the state, that figure will climb perilously toward 20 cents.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2011
But in this pageantry-less, slogan-less war, the train just rumbled on toward New York, through the big towns and the whistle-stops.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even at night, that train made whistle-stops in places where there was nothing but farms or a small mill.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
