Example Sentences

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“I don’t know what y’all are whining about,” he once said as the crowd jeered him after yet another victory.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The fact that you are whining about the spotlight being turned on one of your reporters proves you’re nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.”

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

Your burden is also your blessing: While others are whining about the long line at Starbucks, you are already fully awake and inhabiting your salty humanity.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023

My takeaway was that they are whining and grieving about the loss of power and dominance.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2022

The waits are whining in the cold With clavicorn and clarigold; They play them like a crumpled horn, The clarigold and clavicorn.

From The Battle of the Bays by Seaman, Owen, Sir