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How to use whimper in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun, verb

Whimper means a low intermittent sob. Example: “The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.”

Examples of whimper by meaning

verbTo cry or sob softly and intermittently.

  • The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.

verbTo say something in a whimpering manner.

  • “Master, please don’t punish me!” he whimpered.
  • “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club...

More sentences with whimper

  • Aural communication includes spoken words and paralexical sounds (groans, screams, whimpers); sound effects (wind, a car starting up and driving away); and music.From the entry paralexical
  • This is the way a phenomenon ends — not with a sharknado but a whimper.2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times. From the entry group chat
  • My breath escaped in a thin whimper before I could stop myself.2021, Aden Polydoros, The City Beautiful, Inkyard Press, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry chalaf
  • Jorah reels back into a diagonal close-up whimpering like a dog.2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry comic relief
  • Aiden Gillen whimpers on his knees, stretching for the first time in years.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV…. From the entry callback
  • Cinema's standout bad guys didn't hanky-twist their lives away whimpering “Gee, am I doing something wrong?”2016, Lionel Shriver, Paradise to Perdition. From the entry hanky-twist
  • "The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper.2012 October 23, Gail Russell Chaddock, “The 'other' presidential debate: Third-party candidates make their cases”, in Christian Science…. From the entry buy and pay for
  • He broadsworded one of his dogs in exuberance and it lay there whimpering till it expired.1993, Edward Sanders, “[An East Village Hippie in King Arthur’s Court] Arthur Flips Out”, in Hymn to the Rebel Cafe, Santa Rosa, Calif.…. From the entry broadsword
  • Maganomics is not just inconsistent but dangerous – and will probably end not with a whimper but a bang.2025 March 12, Jonathan Portes, “It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis”, in The Guardian…. From the entry MAGAnomics
  • It will all end in a whimper.2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry make fetch happen
  • The bold Buccaneer who sailed the seven seas in all their varied humours had become a whimpering, parrotless child.2014, Keith M. Costain, The Opera Singer, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 338. From the entry parrotless
  • He just sits up in his treetop where he’ll whimper and he’ll pout, as he has bananaphobia; bananas freak him out.2010, Kenn Nesbitt, “Banana Dan”, in The Tighty Whitey Spider and More Wacky Animal Poems I Totally Made Up, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, page…. From the entry bananaphobia
  • 'Certainly you may,' said Keats civilly, 'we're just shooting the bries.' Eliot whimpered dimly in the calid afternoon.2008, Tom Mathews, “Not with a Bang”, in Keats and Chapman, Dublin: New Island Books, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry calid
  • Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.2004, Welsh Arts Council, Poetry Wales. From the entry dumben
  • The cat bird had a forlorn cry, like a whimpering child or the animal it is named for.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 185. From the entry catbird
  • Something whimpered in the room—high and squally.1953, Annemarie Selinko, Désirée, William Morrow & Company, page 161. From the entry squally
  • Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19. From the entry smote
  • When winds are asweep through the Pecos Valley, they whimper and moan in the barbed-wire fence like troubled ghosts.1926, Walter Noble Burns, chapter 20, in The Saga of Billy the Kid, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, page 294. From the entry asweep
  • She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244. From the entry teen
  • A couple walking in Kirkleatham Woods, Redcar, heard whimpering and found the terrier-type animal in a mound of earth at about midday.2016, Dog found buried alive in Redcar with nail in head, BBC. From the entry put down
  • Finally the couplings whimpered and the train limped off at a slow haul to another country station whose flaky nameboard read 'Adlestrop'.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 171. From the entry nameboard
  • Noop whimpered and humped up into the empty air, his tip drooled more precum as he was massaged by the mist surrounding him.2004 February 28, FuzzWolf, “[Fur] New Story: "Whisp" [M/M, Fox, ghost, anal]”, in fur.stories.erotica (Usenet), via Google Groups. From the entry pawjob
  • Twice it rained in the night, but it was a gentle rain, whimpering featherily on the skin coverings of the conical lodges.1960, Janice Holt Giles, Johnny Osage. From the entry featherily
  • Aaroo, Aaroo” howled Dunchest until he was out of breath and then he began to whimper realizing Cutlass was not coming back until the mission was over.2018, Ravi Struck, Josh Weisman, Pirates of the Seven Seas: Book One: Gromund's Tales, BookBaby, →ISBN. From the entry out of breath
  • “Aaroo, Aaroo,” howled Dunchest until he was out of breath and then he began to whimper realizing Cutlass was not coming back until the mission was over.2018, Ravi Struck, Josh Weisman, Pirates of the Seven Seas: Book One: Gromund's Tales, BookBaby, →ISBN. From the entry aaroo
  • While my bunkmates jotted cheery letters to their families, I whimpered into my pillow, an incipient hodophobe racked by some impossible mix of homesickness and wanderlust.2016, Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language, Ne York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry hodophobe

Meaning of whimper

  1. noun A low intermittent sob.
  2. verb To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
  3. verb To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.

Full definition of whimper

Questions about whimper in a sentence

How do you use whimper in a sentence?
Whimper is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.”
What is a short sentence with whimper?
“Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile.”
What does whimper mean?
Whimper means a low intermittent sob.

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