Synonym: pennywhistle, sing, tin whistle, whistling. Similar words: little by little, mostly, costly, honestly, jostling, whip, whisper, which. Meaning: ['hwɪsl /'w-] n. 1. the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture 2. the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle 3. acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound 4. an inexpensive fipple flute. v. 1. make whistling sounds 2. move with, or as with, a whistling sound 3. utter or express by whistling 4. move, send, or bring as if by whistling 5. make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound 6. give a signal by whistling.
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121 Parties utter a loud trilling whistle, rising and falling in pitch.
122 Nigel Day pictured with the latest creation, a seven-note steam whistle.
123 A collective sigh of relief seemed to whistle from every pore of the house as I walked away.
124 Flora gave a shrill whistle and started trotting down the cliff.
125 Presently, he heard the breath whistle in her throat, a gasp,(www.Sentencedict.com) a tiny groan.
126 Not withstanding that risk, under the Constitution, the judiciary is in the best position to blow the whistle on runaway majorities.
127 If there was any trouble where a young policeman was concerned, she would get going with a whistle and summon assistance.
128 Thus, the best antidote is to whistle and concentrate on thinking of something completely different.
129 By the final whistle he'd done the sensible thing and switched to Gazza.
130 The smell of chlorine engulfed her and some one suddenly blew a whistle, the sound echoing in the large enclosed area.
131 Miss Verjec grasped at her whistle. Like tired dancers the girls started to drop sighing to the field.
132 A few honest policemen were willing to blow the whistle on the captain.
133 The Final, played on Sunday, proved to be a cliff-hanger right up to the final whistle.
134 Suspended Stoke striker Wayne Biggins clashed with Halsall after the final whistle and police were forced to intervene.
135 Faint news of the whistle from the nearby paper mill broadcast from the hillsides.
136 Just before the whistle blew Vernon thought she had seen him; at any rate she was looking in his direction.
137 He claims the two are separate enough that he was in the clear to blow the whistle on the Rialto Theater project.
138 He was almost sure he had heard another whistle, in a low key, somewhere ahead of him.
139 So, why not blow the whistle on a thoroughly corrupt system sooner?
140 I whistle softly, then throw it across the carpets towards the windows.
141 Miss Verjec blew her whistle and walked angrily towards those who had stopped playing and fallen down.
142 Just before the final whistle, former Leeds player Gary Divorty grabbed a consolation try, converted by stand-off Bishop.
143 A shrill whistle could be discerned, audible above the scrape and screech of the music.
144 In studies in Hawaii in 1984, a captive bottlenose dolphin was trained to mimic computer-generated sounds by modifying its whistle.
145 Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole universe.
146 This encouraged the natural impulse to whistle, and led in turn to the use of instrumental whistles emitting high-frequency sound.
147 Thus, we can perceive the sound emitted by a piccolo but not that from a dog whistle.
148 Staff members have little interest in blowing the whistle on this situation.
149 Then the referee started to blow his whistle and bellow at me.
150 But is it a dialogue, or does each blackbird whistle for itself and not for the other?
More similar words: little by little, mostly, costly, honestly, jostling, whip, whisper, which, whither, white, while, meanwhile, outlet, subtle, title, after a while, the White House, rattle, little, cattle, settle, once in a while, entitle, bottled, shuttle, brittle, scuttle, at least, a little, at length.