Example Sentences

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Their baying and whinnying was interrupted every few minutes Saturday night by the piercing roar of engines from a car race on the other side of the fairgrounds.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2022

Poets described the vocal tidal wave by the common folk as shrieking and shouting monster cries, wild braying and whinnying, oxen bellows, goose honks, wolf howls.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2021

He and I talked for hours, until his horse was whinnying with impatience and kicking the slats of the trailer.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

The express train’s steel wheels were whinnying in D and F, she said, with another tone above them.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2016

“I said put yer hands up,” Davy says, his horse whinnying and bluffing and clopping from foot to foot.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness