Somewhere, not far away, there was a soft, long-drawn-out whisper, like the inefficient whistle of a distant train.

You hear on soundtracks the drone of an air-conditioner, the wind and a distant train whistle.

It then began rumbling like a distant train.

On the television screen, a lost infant crept up onto the railroad tracks; a distant train whistle was heard.

He waited there, watching the distant train.

If he looked behind him, he could see the lights of Eastvale, even hear a distant train going by.

The sound of wind in the tree tops was like the rushing of a distant train.

They could hear the river muttering and making a distant train sound a long way off.

At Hallington (the first station from Louth) people heard sounds of a distant train approaching the village.

It was gentle, like a distant train, like a very miniature landslide bumping and cascading.