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
Half a dozen mongrel hounds were whimpering and snarling and growling round the lady, but not attempting to bite.
From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton
His dogs were whimpering at a distance, both securely fastened to trees, and the light of the fire had died down: evidently the old Fog was not, after all, so simple as some other people!
From Castle Nowhere by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Do you hear that little wail in the trees—as if a child were whimpering out there?
From The Hollow of Her Hand by George Barr McCutcheon
