whimper
verb (used without object)
to cry with low, plaintive, broken sounds.
is whimpering
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present progressiveof whimper (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Your bedmate is whimpering in their sleep and perhaps thrashing about.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
Morris, still alive, is whimpering on the stairs.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2014
And as in Journey's End there is a member of the outfit who is whimpering about, losing her nerve.
From Time Magazine Archive
"My little black man is whimpering, Bunch," I said.
From Get Next! by Hugh McHugh
The inferiority of Sterne to Master Francis in his serious pieces, whether he is whimpering over dead donkeys and dying lieutenants, or simulating honest indignation against critics, is too obvious to need insistence.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
