NOUN
- a whistle in which the sound is produced by steam; usually attached to a steam boiler
How To Use steam whistle In A Sentence
- Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
- He blew two longs, a short and a long on the steam whistle as the train inched toward its top speed of 20 miles an hour.
- I can remember when steam called the worker to his work; every factory had a steam whistle or hooter, all different notes, and they could be heard, and responded to, all over town.
- Three short blasts of a steam whistle warned him the ferry was about to depart.
- The sound of a steam whistle fell upon a wilderness. At the parting moment immeasurable melancholy and loneliness welled up in my mind.
- Plumes of white vapor fill the air, and the blast of a steam whistle announces the train's departure.
- Three short blasts of a steam whistle warned him the ferry was about to depart.
- Their lives are governed by steam whistles that summon them to the pits.
