whimper
verb (used without object)
to cry with low, plaintive, broken sounds.
were whimpering
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past progressiveof whimper.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“I look out the kitchen window and all I see are flames. There were dogs in the back, from the neighbors in the back, that were whimpering and crying.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
And here all of them were whimpering and cowering, spooked by one doe.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
"Just now you were whimpering because you had no one to care for you,—and I believe you said it just to get me to say I did."
From Leonore Stubbs by L. B. Walford
There should be fair play in a fair field, if he could only keep a grip upon these others that were whimpering and shivering and straining at the leash.
From 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers by Ernest Gambier-Parry
We were whimpering and peevish; we were wracked with pain and weary of mind, but that nurse never failed to smile.
From Private Peat by Harold Reginald Peat
