Example Sentences

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“Some were whining, ‘What am I going to do?

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

"I thought they were a bunch of people with brand new music that were whining about their existence," he tells the BBC.

From BBC • May 21, 2019

And both kids were whining because the clementine juice stung their fingers.

From Time • Jan. 22, 2014

They were whining because corporations were getting their own golden tickets?

From Slate • Jan. 1, 2012

The chaplain did not dare raise his eyes until the closed car had lurched from the area and the speeding wheels were whining on the bumpy blacktop road.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller