whimper
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And yet the victory comes with more of a whimper, given expectations heading into the night.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
England reached the semi-finals but exited with little more than a whimper with a familiar problem laid bare.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The strange legal saga that torpedoed Jeff Shell’s career at Paramount Skydance has ended with a whimper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Eliot might have predicted, not with a bang but a whimper.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
He let out a whimper that was so soft no one could hear him.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Depp whimpers and writhes with aplomb, but her enthusiastically physical performance never reaches her eyes — unless they’re rolling back in her head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
These included grunts, whimpers, laughter, screams, hoos, barks, squeaks, and pant hoots.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023
The cries of mammalian infants, for example, can be incredibly similar, to the point that white-tailed deer will respond to whimpers whether they're made by marmots, humans or seals.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023
At night the town whimpers to life with a couple of takeaway pizza places and cafés where Tunisian and Senegalese migrants sit outside smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2022
There were twin whimpers from the cradle, as the babies briefly roused and then sank back into their newborn dreams.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Babies with tubes in their noses whimpered quietly in their mothers' arms.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
“When it comes to the actual re-establishment of the business, Sound Transit provides next to nothing,” he said, as babies whimpered behind his office wall at naptime.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
Yet because he never whimpered or complained, few outside the program even knew what he had to endure.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
He nervously tries to speak, but only a few whimpered words emerge.
From Salon ● May 22, 2023
They whimpered as he approached, and he took it as relief and gratitude.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
“I think if the dog came out alive, one of them has to be alive as well,” Fajardo said, as Yogi sat next to her whimpering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
She was crying quietly while we talked, one of those whimpering meltdowns that kids have without actually screaming.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2025
"I am one of the whimpering hounds it seems - it's either Jonathan or Alan I would say," said Sir Stephen earlier in the day.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Gabriela Barrera, 21, was arrested Saturday after Irvine Police Department Animal Service officers went to a home on Eastshore regarding reports of whimpering dogs on the patio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Rowdy never did like to be tied up and right away he started whimpering and whining.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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