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Examples
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I realize your whole-hearted devotion compels you to rise and applaud, whoop, cat-call, etc., but that's really not necessary.
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And as I went along for the always welcoming cup of tea at Neva Cottage, the cat-call of a soaring buzzard turned my head heavenwards.
Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands Roger Redfern 2010
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He expressed his opposition tomountaintop removal by holding up a sign parodying the pro-coal crowd of angry minerswho gathered to cat-call during the speeches by Robert F. Kennedy and other activists and concerned citizens.
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(Yes, the live recording of the song includes many a hoot and cat-call in the background.)
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A boisterous cat-call of "Can Kicker!" here would have been in order.
In Praise of Joe Wilson: What's Wrong with Calling Out Liars in Congress? 2009
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A boisterous cat-call of "Can Kicker!" here would have been in order.
Dave Lindorff: In Praise of 'Joe' Wilson: What's Wrong with Calling Out Lies in Congress? 2009
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Just as I am sure there will be the people like you who will disrupt, cat-call and make a mockery of any meaningful interchanges.
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What you forward here is just a pathetic cat-call, the likes of which you need to put aside if you want to join in a grown - up debate.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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He was likely to be there at any hour of the day, and he and Tom had cat-call signals at night which would bring him out on the back single-story roof, and down a little arbor and flight of steps, to the group of boon companions which, besides Tom, included John Briggs, the Bowen boys, Will
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Museum official having taken it into his head to mimic a cat-call rather like the caterwauling of the animal in question, eight voices simultaneously struck up with the following variations:
Father Goriot 2003
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