Soon, some start dancing to the gentle tootling of recorder music.

He played a tune on his tootling, twanging instrument, then held it out.

Even the soft tootling of the band faded away as stunned shock descended on all those who had not seen this sight before.

Louis waited for the mournful tootling to stop.

Tootling is like tattling but refers to the reporting of only positive, rather than inappropriate, social behaviors.

There was a tootling of a horn behind them and the Standard drew up, ejecting Freddie and George.

Angelina phoned in the order and the service really was fast; there was a tootling of tinny trumpets in the hall.

Tootling is also helpful for teachers to foster awareness of positive behaviors and increase praise while downplaying a focus on negative behaviors and punishment.

Tootling meets key criteria for classroom-based positive behavior support (PBS) and can be used in general and special education settings.

If he, like many of his fellow bloggers, could not exactly be styled a whistleblower, their dogged, discordant tootling provides a precious corrective to official smarm.

And, in that illuminated moment, the picture came to me of what, if I were to continue with this vapid tootling, I would be myself . . . complicit, voiceless, and staring into some private abyss of regret.

Team, from Brighton, England, was pure exuberance, melding hip-hop chants and booming rock, horn fanfares and the tootling of a recorder into songs that cheerfully marketed themselves when the band's lead singer, Ninja, led the audience in chants of "Go!

In the time-honored tradition of tailoring concertos to the skills and personalities of the soloists who commissioned them, Mr. Corigliano has worked in most of Mr. Galway's stylistic hallmarks, from his golden-toned lyricism to his virtuosity and his penchant for irreverent tootling on a pennywhistle.

When the plant reached sufficient size, it began to tootle.

I live in Euston so can just tootle on over.

During the night, some of the locomotives began to tootle to one another, and then to move.

At 69 he is still singing and tootling his harmonica.

I'll just tootle off and mingle with the teachers when they begin to arrive.

The planes arrived two minutes after the last patriotic note had been tootled.

For nearly a decade, the whistle tootled on in easy obscurity.

Here you may tootle from restaurant to bar to club and barely notice you've moved.

Floyd watched him go, tootling a little march in time with his footsteps.

Yes, I hear something, Someone's out there tootling on a pipe.

A couple of Mexicans with cornets began tootling a welcome.

Somewhere in the distance somebody tootled on a wood instrument, very gently.

They are given clear examples of tootling and then asked to give their own examples.

When the wind was strong enough I could hear the pipes tootling merrily, even from the kitchen.

Someone tootled on a pipe, out in the air below the window, where the moons were sinking.

For those who so tootle, there is a price, but it is not outrageous by today's standards.

To his surprise, he managed to tootle out a number very like the one he had described.

At its peak there were over two hundred cars tootling around the city of Detroit, poisoning the air.

You can even rent a private trolley to tootle around Vienna in style (call 892-1334 for information).

Colin simply sat atop the ice wall and tootled softly on his flute.

"I was able to tootle along with the tunes, which was quite acceptable," he said.

Tell you what we'll do- 116 let's tootle over to that dusty old gatehouse place an' hold a council o' war.

I could never tootle for a living.

And then, playing alone, Leroy would tootle pathetically, ridiculously, if he played at all.

Like trying to hear a distant concert when somebody's tootling on a fife right next to you."