Read full poem →I cannot ope to every one who taps,
And let the draughts come whistling through my hall;
Come bounding and surrounding me,
Dictionary Entry
To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
In a Sentence
“Never whistle at a funeral.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. whistlingsound whistlingwhistling windwhistling came
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Poetry examples for “whistling”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I cannot ope to every one who taps,
And let the draughts come whistling through my hall;
Come bounding and surrounding me,
Read full poem →Sat swinging on the gate;
Sat whistling, whistling like a bird,
Or may be slept too late:
Read full poem →I cannot ope to every one who taps,
And let the draughts come whistling thro' my hall;
Come bounding and surrounding me,
Read full poem →And gold threads whistling
Through my mother’s hand.
Read full poem →The eternal noise
Of wind whistling in grass more shrill
Than aught as human as a sword,
Read full poem →With spangles of the morning's storm drop down
Because the starling shakes it, whistling what
Once swallows sang. But I have not forgot
Read full poem →And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Read full poem →Where a black quagmire quakes beneath the tread,
The fieldfares chatter in the whistling thorn
And for the awe round fields and closen rove,
Read full poem →The plains, that seem without a bush or tree,
Whistling aloud by guess, to flocks they cannot see.