Sentence examples for like whistling from inspiring English sources

Unpopular Ted Heath beat better-liked Harold Wilson, but all that sounds like whistling in the dark.

But this feels like whistling in the dark.

"There were five cops, like, whistling at this Puerto Rican girl.

Some make jokes about it, like whistling to yourself as you pass the cemetery.

Like whistling Dixie, defending the Confederate flag means harkening for the status quo.

Some listeners might have considered Giambi's take as spin, but it sounded more like whistling past the graveyard.

(Mr. Bird's one-man violin orchestrations and theremin-like whistling, impressive in measured doses, got cloying after a while).

Next up is The Clangers, the show about pink, knitted, mouse-like whistling aliens created in 1969 by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.

Manchester's 47-storey Beetham Tower, the tallest residential building in Europe when it opened in 2006, has needed work to stop it emitting a high-pitched, flute-like whistling; engineers blamed high winds hitting a thin glass blade at the top of the tower.

A strong, firm push in your lower back, a shrill but jet-like whistling sound, and you are doing over 60, just like that.

You can use any word you like or whistle as long as you are very consistent and only use that word for that one particular meaning.