Synonyms
Examples for "whimper"
Examples for "whimper"
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Suddenly, I hear a whimper coming from a clearing on my right.
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I couldn't even muster up a whimper: it took too much energy.
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Some are under-resourced, meaning their bark is often reduced to a whimper.
4
Uncontrollably, your entire body contracts and you let out a small whimper.
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Lise began to whimper, and suddenly buried her face in the pillow.
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Peta explains the pule tasi; the formal dress worn by Pacific Island women.
2
The pule-tasi worn by a member of the church choir.
3
His laughter turned to a strangled pule.
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A quiet pule made her turn around.
5
We fight on, Pule said at his shop in a Johannesburg suburb.
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In my arms the baby stirred and opened his mouth to mewl.
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They mewl and they cry and they curl up in fear.
3
Laura opens her mouth, but nothing except a pathetic mewl escapes her lips.
4
Only a whimper, a mewl of pain or of frustration.
5
They're hidin' behind that bewt, 'n' they've got my mewl.
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Told that journalists didn't consider it news, he would wail, Why not?
2
The lost float up in shadowy forms, and wail in whispered despair.
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A woman's heart throbbed in the lilt and broke in the wail.
4
Fitfully the words came on the wind, in an almost heart-breaking wail:
5
For a second, Willy heard the ghostly wail of her daughter's voice.
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As he topped the rise, she gave a great wail of torment.
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The little voice rose higher and higher in a sort of wail.
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The wail of anguish in her voice went straight to his heart.
9
From below, rose a shrill wail; and the door ceased its groaning.
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Through the open window, I heard a siren wail in the distance.
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One more wail would go the round in that wind by night.
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The two women, terrified, began to wail in concert with the dog.
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And therewith across the muttering thunder came a wail of the ghost-music.
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The wail and bark of a jackal came from the landward plain.
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The third and last scream died out in a low, bubbling wail.
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The voice sank away in a low wail, and Amzi sprang up.
