whistle up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Stern said: “You don’t create jobs for the 21st century by trying to whistle up jobs from the 19th century.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2018
It has also become clear that Russia cannot whistle up a summit conference on its terms alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
The 1944 corps was Japan's effort to whistle up an equally effective wind.
From Time Magazine Archive
OPA Boss Paul Porter tried to whistle up some cheer, but his best was a prediction that supplies would be "fairly good" after six or eight weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
For some reason I was out back of our cabin, looking into the forest and still trying to whistle up them three pups that couldn’t help theyselfs and had flinched.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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