whimper

Example Sentences

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It was just an optical illusion, just because I was running, just because I’m worried about whoever made that cry or whimper.

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He made a whimpering sound and held his leg with a dramatic flair, as if Danny had wounded him mortally.

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Then I yelled, “You stupid old tree!” and I kicked its trunk as hard as I could so my foot ached something fierce, but I didn’t even whimper.

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I laid him belly-down over my forearm and rocked him, and he went from yelling to whimpering, and next thing he was asleep.

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Churro had been whimpering and quivering for the last hour, and now he threw up.

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