Example Sentences

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But “only a few understand it,” she said, making it hard to talk about “because obviously you sound whiney when you’ve clearly done something wrong. It just sucks. There is no winning.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2021

"And it's hard to talk about it in that sense because obviously you sound whiney when you've clearly done something wrong. It just sucks. There is no winning."

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2021

"And it’s hard to talk about it in that sense because obviously you sound whiney when you’ve clearly done something wrong," Teigen added.

From Fox News • Jul. 14, 2021

She based Hannah on her own adolescent self: “a little bit whiney, slightly uncomfortable in her own skin, able to make up stories on the spot.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2018

I was sullen and dependent on my mother's sole attention, tender-hearted, and whiney: the classic temperament of the artist but without anything to show for my bad character.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez