whimpering

• “But the whimpering is real, and justified, because it hurts to have your world come crashing down.”

  Loose Money And the Roots of the Crisis | Disinformation

• “Democrats are again whimpering and unable to provide a cohesive message from the early stages of this nomination.”

  Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America, Revisited

• “From somewhere amidships the silence was broken by a low whimpering from the cabin boy.”

  The Seed of McCoy

• “And the whimpering is the sound they make when they're neutered, packaged, and made readily available for mainstream consumption.”

  Mallrats: Where Trends Go To Die

• “I have no clear recollection what it was that I said, -- I desire not to recall the whimpering sentences in which I begged to be let alone, in which”

  Father and Son: a study of two temperaments

• “At one point I became aware that I was kind of whimpering with some barely suppressed emotion ... and I only realized it because some other show-goer gave me an alarmed look and stepped away smartly!”

  Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• “An odd kind of whimpering started as I got into the front and shut the door.”

  Northlight

• “I remember washing myself all the time and kind of whimpering about "I'm not gonna have this every month, I want you to know," and washing and washing.”

  I Tina

• “There on the island top the two lions marched backwards and forwards as though they were in a cage, making a kind of whimpering noise as they went, and staring round them uneasily.”

  The Ghost Kings

• “In the early hours of the Monday morning, a neighbour said he heard a baby "whimpering" and murmuring "mummy".”

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