whimper
IPA: wˈɪmpɝ
noun
- A low intermittent sob.
verb
- To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
- To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
- To say something in a whimpering manner.
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Examples of "whimper" in Sentences
- And, just sayin, cuz Mr. Grammar isn't around, don't you mean "whimper"?
- Just then one of journalists heard a small whimper from the back of the class.
- I thought there might be another JohnnyRussia out there, but the "whimper" characterization pretty much nails you.
- Rohan: just out of curiosity, can you name ten times a hero's died a non-heroic "whimper" death in a Marvel comic, pre-Disassembled?
- With a contented feline yawn, Serena curled up for a nap but was suddenly interrupted by a whimper from the floor of the living room.
- They brought in well known California Litigator Carlos F. Negrete to take over as lead trial attorney - and Aetna started to seriously "whimper"...
- The whimper is the cowardice and bleating of the Americans like sheep even though it is their policies of Colonialism with its theft and murder that brought on 9/11.
- We didn't think it was -- having won the cold war, we didn't -- we didn't want to see things go out with a bang, we wanted to see them go out with a whimper, which is the way they went out.
- Dumbledore, you - you will need to tell me exactly - the Fountain of Magical Brethren - what happened? 'he added in a kind of whimper, staring around at the floor, where the remains of the statues of the witch, wizard and centaur now lay scattered.
- a block of it, anyway, when we met two little boys about ten years old -- perhaps one was a little older; one looked about ten, and the other about eleven, or perhaps even twelve, although I think ten would come nearer to it -- and they asked us in a tone between a whine and a cry -- the word whimper more nearly describes it -- if we would buy either
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