Example Sentences
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No one whines about having to clean the bathroom or having a night shift.
From Slate • Sep. 29, 2025
“Do I still have to stick to policy?” he whines in a little-boy voice.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2024
He's such a sore loser that even when he wins, he whines that he was cheated out of winning even bigger.
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2024
All week I’d reveled in the cackles of leaf monkeys, hoots of gibbons, and barks of macaques, plus choruses of birds and frogs—all backed by the hums and whines of insects.
From National Geographic • Jan. 23, 2024
“I am not a worm,” he whines sleepily.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
