Example Sentences
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The whiningly nasal caricature makes it harder to credit Atticus’s plea that his kids find it in their hearts to understand downtrodden Bob.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022
He instructs Banquo's murderers with a flat naturalism that echoes the White House tapes, then whiningly rationalizes his supposed invincibility while twiddling a now useless dagger.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’m getting to that,” she says, almost whiningly.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
Straightway the man stopped running, fell on his knees, and whiningly said that he had been permitted to take what he was carrying by honourable foreign soldiery whom he had been allowed to assist.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
"You wouldn't go and tell her that I am here, would you?" said Bonaparte, whiningly.
From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive
