How to Use whistle-stop in a Sentence
whistle-stop
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In 1984, Reagan even got FDR’s old train car out of mothballs to perform a whistle-stop tour of Ohio.
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Ann Manov,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
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Instead of embarking on an adventure with the aim of seeing as many species as possible—akin to whistle-stopping at multiple European countries in a week—people want to learn as much as possible about a specific animal.
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Gaby Keiderling,
Robb Report,
4 Sep. 2025
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Jeong says that Mad About Seafood is far from just a whistle-stop tour of Korea’s culinary highlights, but instead, an in-depth program about culture and heritage that also provided space for Lee to share more about his identity as a Korean-American.
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Sara Merican,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2025
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Once again, there was a global whistle-stop tour, starting in São Paulo at the beginning of November 2025, followed by Paris, London, Singapore and New York over 13 days.
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K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
27 May 2026
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But also Teddy Roosevelt was able to knit that country divided between country and city and East and West back together again during the 20th century by taking a whistle-stop train around the country with the same message of a square deal for the rich and the poor, the capitalist and the laborer.
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Greg Carannante,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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