whistle up

verb

1. tr, adverb to call or summon (a person or animal) by whistling

Example Sentences

They lolled, for the most part silent or grumbling curses, against the rails, with here and there one trying to whistle up a wind.

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The clatter of the train trucks had dimmed, but a whistle up ahead was blaring an alarm.

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Night was falling, and at any moment Jan Chinn might whistle up his dreaded steed from the darkening scrub.

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"The dark firs knew his whistle up the trail," the song in that soft true voice drew to its close.

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Hence, in the event that one sought to whistle up the other, he merely wasted his breath.

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