Example Sentences

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Weeks earlier, he had whistled for the birthday party of chief of staff Andy Card, who then told President George W. Bush about it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

"I whistled it because we were making a cowboy song and I wanted the drop to not be my vocal."

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

But the officials ruled the play had been whistled dead before the shot.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

After the defeat in Portugal stopped Madrid reaching the last 16 directly, the Santiago Bernabeu crowd was in unforgiving mood and whistled their own players, despite appeals from Arbeloa and Mbappe ahead of the game.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

Over in the bow, Leo whistled happily as he tinkered with Festus’s mechanical brain, muttering something about a crystal and an astrolabe.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan