374 examples of whimpers in sentences

The dog moves in his kennel, and whimpers, frightenedly.

From the crib come whimpers, angry cries, yells, sobs, baby snarls and sniffles that die away in a sleepy infant growl.

If you hear the whimper of a hound, follow me like lightning and plunge into the water.

" <Cry, weep, sob, snivel, whimper, blubber, bawl, squall, howl, wail>.

" He began to whimper.

"You are not afraid, boy?" He rubbed his eyes and began to whimper.

It was foolish to be afraid there, yet still I was; so afraid that I held in and hardly even whimpered, though it would have been such a comfort to whimper, because that eases the pain, you know.

" "He often whimpers when Marcos is away.

But 'all things do end,' and so did this; and the silence of the hounds also; and a faint but knowing whimper drove St. Francis out of all heads, and Lancelot began to stalk slowly with a dozen horsemen up the wood-ride, to a fitful accompaniment of wandering hound-music, where the choristers were as invisible as nightingales among the thick cover.

At first they took their medicine without a whimper.

But never a whimper out of him from first to last.

I don't care what the janitor says; I did hear squeals and whines and whimpers!

He cut all his teeth without even a whimper.

"And I warrant now," remarked Colonel Whimpers, as soon as the tale was finished, "that you two boys get the first clew to where the robbers are hiding.

"Phebe, my dear child, my dear child!" and the soft-hearted little old maid stooped to kiss Phebe's pale cheek, and straightway began to whimper.

Then 'Dandy,' 'Curly,' 'Brandy,' and 'Nettle,' till spying a cat in the distance, the whole pack with a whimper of excitement dash off at a mad scramble, the hound straining meanwhile at the slip, till he almost pulls the mehter off his legs.

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife That prays and whimpers of the higher life, Objects to latch-keys, and bewails the old, The dear old days, of passion and of dream, When life was a blank canvas, yet untouched Of the great painter Sin.

He tells a long story about himself, without wit or point in it; and whines and whimpers like a school-boy under the rod of his master.

" Mrs. Robson began to whimper discreetly.

Do not let the water in your blood whimper for mercy.

" In the darkness around us children began to whimper; a woman broke down, sobbing.

The wind that moans among the columns of the Parthenon, or rustles through the weeds on the palaces of the Caesars, whimpers no truer prophecies than that venal breath which, at a signal from the patron in the White House, bends all one way the obsequious leaves of a partisan press, ominous of popular decadence.

Roger, was it you?The storm bursts, in one fierce rush of sleet and roaring wind; the little spaniel crouched at my feet whimpers and nestles closer; the house is silent,silent as my thoughts,silent as he is who walked these rooms once, with a face likest to the sky that darkens them now, and lonelier, lonelier than I, though at his side forever trod a companion.

He began to whimper like a beaten dog.

The dog hates the teacher; they tell it not to bark at him; it looks, does not bark, only whimpers with rage.

374 examples of  whimpers  in sentences