Example sentences for: whimper

How can you use “whimper” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Conjectured ancestors include the Lowland Scottish peu to `make a plaintive noise' and the Danish piave `to whimper, whine or cry like a child.

  • He's the multimillionaire founder of a biotech company, and the mother-daughter pair in pursuit of him are hippie drifters, who whimper for their chance at legitimacy and reliable love where Adele and Ann howled and scratched.

  • The Post poll predicting a Barry primary win allows him to quit with a bang, not a whimper: "He can go out saying, 'See, they still love me.

  • In Pakistan, Dawn condemned Monday's U.S. air attacks on Iraq, saying Wednesday in an editorial that it was "shocking that not even a whimper has been heard in protest against these blatant acts of terrorism on the part of the sole superpower in the world.


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