whinny

How To Use whinny In A Sentence

• He could hear voices passing, harried servants, laughing men, the occasional bark of a dog or whinny of a horse. A TIME OF WAR
• Sometimes I can hear the horses whinnying, hooves clip-clopping up the street.
• A mare, with her young foal, was grazing in an orchard on an American farm, when she was noticed to run at full speed from a distant part of the orchard, making a loud cry -- not like her usual voice, but a kind of unnatural "whinny," like a scream of distress. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)
• He went out to his horse's stall where his horse stood whinnying to get out and stretch his legs.
• Melhiril's horse reared back on its hind legs, letting out a loud whinny.
• A louder whinny brought Autumn upright and she turned towards the mare. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
• He saw us approach, and greeted us with a whinny and a gesture of his long tasselled tail.
• Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive. My Antonia
• They heard confused shouts and the whinnying of startled horses behind them.
• As opposed to the kind of Americans who tend to squat like vampiric fiscal homunculi on the neck of their floundering, whinnying prey. Wayne Rooney, Americans and the terrible burden of ambition