whistle
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De Zerbi ran on to the pitch to celebrate with the travelling supporters at the final whistle, while his coaches and substitutes raced towards the players in the corner of the ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Magennis himself summed up the general mood at the final whistle when he told BBC Sport NI he was "bitterly disappointed" to take only a point from the game.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
You give one of those sort of regal dogs from Great Britain — those people in kilts and they blow a tiny whistle that no one can hear and the dog runs for 300 miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Tyler Shultz was among several Theranos employees who voiced concerns inside the company about what they saw as troubling practices and was the first to blow the whistle to a state regulator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2022
The necklace of the whistle strap looped behind her neck.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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Thousands of people marched through the streets of Madrid rattling keys and blowing whistles to call for measures to curb rising housing costs and make evictions more difficult.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
That saves time and money for network operators who don’t want or need an operating system with lots of bells and whistles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
In other words, people may think they want trendy appliances, but they sometimes have lots of bells and whistles they don’t end up using.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
She said she didn't want bells and whistles - or even a wedding dress.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Rudi holds the card by its edges and whistles under his breath.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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World champion Luke Littler has threatened to stop playing in the Netherlands after being booed and whistled at during the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
From her earliest years, Emily thrilled to the austere glories of the landscape, with its great desolate stretches of rocky turf and rushing waterways all shaped and pummeled by winds that whistled and “wuthered.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
A contented sigh whistled through his lips as he squinted down to examine the image.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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But that kind of optimism can quickly start to sound more like whistling past the graveyard.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Blume's speech was repeatedly interrupted by jeering and whistling, a person present at the meeting told AFP, and workers held aloft signs saying: "Don't balance your books with our jobs".
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
DeChambeau reportedly stayed out on the driving range until after dark, at times whistling, humming and singing while hitting balls and offering reporters snacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
He cites one layman’s description of the transformative experience: “I can dive in with a long face and what feels like a terminal case of depression, and come out a whistling idiot.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The whistling grew louder and closer, and I licked my lips nervously.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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