17 Verbs to Use for the Word whine

If our motor didn't keep up such a constant whirl we might have heard the whine of that lead when it went singing past us!"

Deep down in his throat Kazan gave a rumbling whine.

He sprang about excitedly, making short nervous leaps and twists, now toward one, now toward the other, in painful indecision, not knowing his own mind, desiring both and unable to choose, uttering quick sharp whines and beginning to pant.

She heard them rustling in the spruce boughs; and far in the forest she discerned the first whine of the wakening wind.

It is a pathetic attitude, deeply significant of cold and misery; occasionally some poor beast emits a long pathetic whine.

Let the profiteer talk o' vested richts and interestsor whine o' them, since he whines mair than he talks.

They were drifting past the point now, and the scent of Gray Wolf came to Kazan's nostrils, rousing him, and bringing a low whine from his throat.

The grotto rose beautifully, and at last they were all quiet and happy again; all but poor Susy, who, seeing herself excluded, kept up a terrible whine.

This time, however, as though cowed, she began to whimper, and then maintained a long, trembling whine.

Then there came to his ears the sound that had stopped Croisseta low, moaning whine which seemed to have neither beginning nor end, but which was borne in on his senses as though it were a part of the soft movement of the air he breatheda note of infinite sadness which held him startled and without movement, as it held Jean Croisset.

Flint and steel soon lighted a fire, and then he sent forth his call, the long penetrating whine of the wolf.

Apparently in the first half of its curve, that is, its course while ascending, the shell produced a dull whine accompanied by a falling cadence, which changes to a rising shrill as soon as the acme has been reached and the curve points downward again.

'Taint no use to sit an' whine, When the fish ain't on yer line; Bait yer hook an' keep a-tryin' Keep a-goin'!

His voice took on a whine intended for good-fellowship.

A striped awning led from the curb up to a spreading gray stone house, from inside which issued the low drummy whine of expensive jazz.

The wolf-dog, at that familiar sight, whined a low greeting, but with a glance at his master knew that there was a changethe old alliance was brokenso he bared his white teeth and changed his whine to a snarl of hate.

There would come the hungry whine of a shell passing low over the house-tops, followed, an instant later, by a shattering crash, and the whole facade of the building that had been struck would topple into the street in a cascade of brick and stone and plaster.

17 Verbs to Use for the Word  whine