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Of Horns and Whines and the Humble Ear Plug Everybody talks about the vuvuzelas but nobody does anything about them.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2010

Whines the TV junkie: "Who says everything has to be real?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Not while the shrewd salt gale Whines amid shroud and sail,   Above the rhythmic roll     And thunder of the seas.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

Examine the following Annual or monethly Season-Description, and you shall find him; begining at the end of Rutting-time, that is, In November, in Heaths among Furs, Shrubs and Whines.

From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Howlett, Robert

Whines about the courts—I don't know what rot.

From Seven Keys to Baldpate by Biggers, Earl Derr