whimper
verb (used without object)
to cry with low, plaintive, broken sounds.
whimpers
Example Sentences
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In the video, one of the woman’s young daughters whimpers and the other clasps tightly to her distraught, Mickey ears headband-wearing mother while begging strangers for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
These included grunts, whimpers, laughter, screams, hoos, barks, squeaks, and pant hoots.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023
The cries of mammalian infants, for example, can be incredibly similar, to the point that white-tailed deer will respond to whimpers whether they're made by marmots, humans or seals.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023
At night the town whimpers to life with a couple of takeaway pizza places and cafés where Tunisian and Senegalese migrants sit outside smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2022
I shouted, “They were never your family,” but it sounded like gargles and whimpers.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
