Example Sentences

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He asks the reporter, in a little whiney baby’s voice, “By the way, this is a profile piece, this is not a gotcha piece, right?”

From Slate • May 16, 2026

But “only a few understand it,” she said, making it hard to talk about “because obviously you sound whiney when you’ve clearly done something wrong. It just sucks. There is no winning.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2021

"And it's hard to talk about it in that sense because obviously you sound whiney when you've clearly done something wrong. It just sucks. There is no winning."

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2021

"And it’s hard to talk about it in that sense because obviously you sound whiney when you’ve clearly done something wrong," Teigen added.

From Fox News • Jul. 14, 2021

Instead it was in a mocking sort of baby-talk tone, all whiney.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth