How to Use dog whistle in a Sentence

dog whistle

noun

• The dog whistle comes from the top, and the middle and lower levels act on it.
  — Jina Moore, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• McAuliffe calls the GOP focus on the matter a racist dog whistle.
  — Boris Sanchez, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
• The comments Otis makes on his blog aren’t racist dog whistles.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 3 Mar. 2018
• These students think, or have been taught to think, that free speech is just a dog whistle for the alt-right.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• Monday was not the first time Jiang addressed dog whistles at the White House.
  — Tanya A. Christian, Essence, 12 May 2020
• But think about the dog whistle that in some instances has been far louder.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2020
• As a teen, Rhinehart could hear sounds like dog whistles when no one else could.
  — Yessenia Funes, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2023
• Even in 1968, though, Wallace’s dog whistle couldn’t win him any states outside the South.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2020
• First off, there is no racist dog whistle in this tweet, since Donald Trump didn’t use all caps.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 29 Mar. 2018
• For decades, America has relied on subtext and dog whistle, and in all that time the sphinx has laid waste to us.
  — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
• There’s a school of thought that believes that every instrument that makes a sound is a dog whistle.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 May 2023
• Well, with the election of Donald Trump as the leader of their party, the dog whistles have been replaced by a megaphone.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Aug. 2017
• One of them uses a word that is on its face offensive, and the other one uses sort of a racist dog whistle.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2018
• But Nehlen takes Trump’s dog whistling to anti-Semites and white supremacists to a new level.
  — Tara Golshan, Vox, 12 Apr. 2018
• Anti-Raider supporters claimed the R was a pro-Raider symbol, like a racist dog whistle.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2021
• To be serious for a moment, what Trump tweeted wasn’t a dog whistle.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• The dog whistle glossary updates every five years or so.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
• And now, the Trump hat is sometimes a dog whistle of barbaric white supremacy, and that is a massive problem.
  — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 16 Feb. 2018
• Along with this was the racist dog whistles the Republicans persist in blowing.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Aug. 2017
• For the chief law enforcement officer to use a dog whistle like that is appalling.
  — Jessica Estepa, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2018
• This is a race where the pundits said that Youngkin was blowing the racial dog whistle and trying to get Whites and White supremacists engaged in the race.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2021
• Everyone who didn’t vote for this man knows that a presidential all-caps tweet is the highest pitch of his racist dog whistle.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 28 Mar. 2018
• In its paper-thin hypocrisy, his video epistle Was a minute-long rendition of his usual dog whistle.
  — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Trump's Juneteenth Tulsa rally might have been a mistake — or a racist dog whistle, Joshua Adams writes in an opinion piece.
  — NBC News, 18 June 2020
• Fear is creeping in that instead of beginning to beat back the tide of Trumpism and race-baiting dog whistles, Democrats will once again be submerged in it.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Oct. 2017
• In fact, tensions did reach a boiling point over a scene in the third Roseanne-reboot episode that seemed to dismiss those very ABC shows, and was hard to read as anything but a racist dog whistle.
  — Joy Press, HWD, 29 May 2018
• First, here is a piece exploring the dangerous rise of racist dog whistles in modern media.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 31 May 2018
• But what Trump has done is given a green light, a dog whistle to those who would rewrite history, who would use that history as a tool.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
• Your article is a soft racist dog whistle and divides Blacks, Jews and Palestinians.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 May 2024
• Nice to see Devon at the Update desk, which includes a funny bit about Jost reacting to a literal racist dog whistle.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024