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Example sentences for "whistling sound"

  • Nearly the same sort of hissing or whistling sound in breathing has been mentioned already as occurring in laryngismus stridulus.

  • Later, when the danger to life from apnoea becomes more imminent, a hissing or whistling sound succeeds.

  • Worst, in croup, is a steadily or paroxysmally increasing difficulty of breathing, with a dry hissing or whistling sound of respiration and cough succeeding the barking sounds of the earlier stage.

  • Etym: [So called from a whistling sound which it makes.

  • Defn: To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

  • A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

  • Defn: The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.

  • The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.

  • To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

  • So called from a whistling sound which it makes.

  • As soon as he had stripped a golden branch with the pole, the golden branch emitted a whistling sound, and woke the watch; the watch hastened up, seized and delivered him to the lord of the golden apple-tree.

  • To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.

  • One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.


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