whinnying
- present participle of whinny.
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
Just outside its doors sits Jackson Square, with a statue of Andrew Jackson tipping his hat on a whinnying horse, which I looked out upon every day as a teen-age employee of CC’s Coffee House.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
The forecast was calling for rain the next day, an element as necessary for all this — the flowering plant life, the whinnying animal life — as is the sun.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 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
Fledge trotted to and fro, sniffing and whinnying.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
