Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Depending on its dimensions, the cylinder will ring with radio waves of a specific frequency, just as a bottle will whistle with sound waves of a set pitch if you blow across its mouth.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 20, 2024
The wind will whistle down Broadway for just a few more performances as Daniel Fish’s audacious version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic comes to a close.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2020
Declared Callaghan: "If industry cannot retain and generate sufficient funds, you will whistle in vain for investment and we will continue to slide downhill."
From Time Magazine Archive
He will whistle until he has set a dog tearing through the bushes to find his supposed master.
From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
In the wilderness of stone in which Jeff seeks his annual lonely holiday he is glad to palaver of his many adventures, as a boy will whistle after sundown in a wood.
From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening
