whimper

How To Use whimper In A Sentence

• No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs. CHAPTER XVI
• As that arch-modernist T. S. Eliot predicted, ‘This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.’
• But the next minute, the little creature whimpering, she bent down in impatient repentance and kissed it, whimpering too. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
• He was aware of grinning, slavering mouths, incomprehensible, whimpering sounds, and fingers scratching at the talc. IN LOVE AND WAR
• How could he simply throw in the towel - not with a bang but a whimper - and in such an unseemly way?
• Jessie's wails died down to a whimper and then stopped altogether.
• It's sad to see such a provocative thinker go out with a whimper instead of a bang.
• Dispatches opened with footage of a young man curled up by his front door, whimpering in pain and despair. Times, Sunday Times
• This was foreseeable because of the spectacular shift to the right; the post-war consensus ended not with a whimper but with a bang.
• I hear a whimpering sound from upstairs. Times, Sunday Times