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 McHugh, Hugh

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 Saintsbury, George