whistling

IPA: wˈɪsɫɪŋ

Examples of "whistling" in Sentences

This is what we call whistling through the graveyard.
Its cheerful whistling is audible in our house throughout the day.
However, I can't help but think this is what they call whistling past the graveyard.
“Sifr”: I have warned readers that whistling is considered a kind of devilish speech by the Arabs, especially the
“Sifr”: whistling is held by the Badawi to be the speech of devils; and the excellent explorer Burckhardt got a bad name by the ugly habit.
"That is what I call whistling," said he, after he had repeated the signal thrice; "and now to cover, to cover, or Whitefoot will not be shod this day."
That man in the Day-Glo hard hat wolf-whistling is now an urban regenerator and the tempting cleft peeping from his waistband announces his urban regenerator's bum.
Besides plain whistling, there were warbles (made by blowing jerkily) and trills (made by rolling an "r" while blowing); by blowing patterns of high and low notes of varying style, most anything that needed to be communicated on shipboard could be said.