Sentence examples for piercing whistle from inspiring English sources

It is a piercing whistle, commonly up to 30 dB above the background noise level.

When alarmed, marmots emit a sharp, piercing whistle and scurry to their burrows if danger persists.

When he got a fish on the line out there and wanted us to adulate and watch him bring it in, he would spread his mouth with two fingers and over the roar of rapids deliver that piercing whistle.

Coach Butch van Breda Kolff, a former Princeton and Knicks player, with a piercing whistle and furious bark and a great feel for the game, could not rouse his players as they drifted back from the holidays.

And then it happened, a collection of sounds and images that shattered my teenage boredom … A piercing whistle, coupled with a throaty, semi-threatening "Oh yeah!" Heavy drum beat A wall A splash of water More drums The wall again More water A man with large dark shades sitting on a chair that is fixed high to the wall.

From outside the lecture hall, a raucous cheer and piercing whistle rallies the first of the day's marches.

Keith Van Horn heard the piercing whistles all night.

Swallows swoop in great arcs, and a sheepdog is trained with piercing whistles.

Except, that is, for the ear-piercing whistle worn around the headmistress's neck.

If, somehow, mice make their way through the steel wool, through the pine scent, through the ear-piercing whistle, back to my kitchen, it may be time for the nuclear option.

It delivers on that promise; piercing dog-whistle static builds up to nauseating hardcore breaks, heavy-lidded raps about drug trafficking, and a drop that feels like a jackhammer to the sternum.