How to Use whistler in a Sentence

whistler

noun
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  • Then four sacks of puddler decoys and one of whistlers, plus a dozen Canada goose floaters.
    — Will Ryans, Field & Stream, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The other whistler, Jeff Pack, hopes to come to Omaha this weekend, and Franklin will make sure to fill him in on the new ground rules.
    — Eric Olson, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2019
  • Just as in ordinary speech, the whistler’s tongue and jaw move to form different words, but the range of movement is more constrained.
    — Julien Meyer, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2016
  • According to the Tennessean, only Franklin among the two Vanderbilt whistlers was at Sunday’s game.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al.com, 18 June 2019
  • The crew — led by notorious quick-whistler Tony Brothers — called 30 fouls in the first half and put the Mavericks in the penalty three minutes into the second quarter.
    — Dallas News, 4 May 2022
  • Let Sean Lomax, a world champion whistler, explain the finer points of this pastime and musical art.
    — Patrick Farrell, Wired, 22 Mar. 2020
  • The whistler forms consonants in either language class by modulating how abruptly the sound is altered when changing from one pitch to another.
    — Julien Meyer, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2016
  • Do the signature whistles carry information besides the identity of the whistler?
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
  • Although the reality check was discouraging, Lowery credited Lebermann with sending him on the path of being a big-band whistler.
    — Michael Corcoran, ExpressNews.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Wittgenstein was also a virtuoso whistler, and could whistle perfectly whole symphony movements.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Singer-songwriter-violinist-master whistler Andrew Bird is 45.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
  • Any devoted audiobook listener can attest: Spending nine hours (or more) in the company of a terrible reader — a shrieker, mumbler, droner, tooth whistler or overzealous thespian — is an experience that can truly ruin a book.
    — Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2019

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