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How to use whimper in a sentence

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But watching all the stabbings, murders, guns and violence that can be seen every night on prime time television elicits not even a whimper.
He let out a small whimper but stood his ground, hands clenched into shaking fists.
Only a tiny whimper from pain as she fallen on her rump, the wood pinching her bare flesh.
Darcy gave a little whimper, and then Austin distinctly heard the sound of something bumping against the tile.
When she hears a baby's soft whimper, Daphne claps a hand over her mouth to stifle a gasp of surprise.
They shrugged after the second Test was lost by a whimper, then spoke of relief when defeat was staved off in the third.
She hated watching us fight, but never took sides and could only muster up a whimper for a truce.
Contrary to every expectation, its advent has been greeted with more of a bang than a whimper.
They have to know they were lucky to get out of Miami with Kerry having scored a whimper rather than a bang.
This insight goes a long way to explain why the war ended as it did, with a whimper rather than a bang.
It's sad to see such a provocative thinker go out with a whimper instead of a bang.
The love affair between business and Labour is ending with a whimper, not a bang.
This conclusion comes with a bang, not a whimper and is the only possible finale for such a sizzling firework display of a book.
No impressive display of pyrotechnics, the inertial dampening system gave up the ghost with a whimper.
Maybe the guy who predicted that the world will end with a whimper instead of a bang was right.
It seems unfair that a man of such vitality, intelligence, and formidable personality ended his public career with more of a whimper than a bang.
While has been completely subsumed by the with a whimper not a bang bowing out of Belle de Jour.
It could make such a difference to your day when you started with a bang, not a whimper!
This is like the way a mother attends to her newborn's tiniest whimper but as the years roll on this level of attention diminishes.
If the parties don't reconcile, the divorce is actually just the whimper at the very end.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The women moistened its lips with barley-water, and hushed its fretful whimper.
Then came soft little thuds on the floor, a whimper or two, small sighs, and a slither of bare legs on bare boards.
And I heard close at hand the call of an owl, as like the whimper of a child as ever howlet's vesper mocked.
Ralph would rather have heard him whimper and shuffle as he had done before.
Out with your cambric, dear ladies, and let us all whimper together.
Gave it up, as you did, without a whimper or even a whisper?
She began to be witless again, to wring her hands, to whimper and whine.
Nothing was important enough to delay attention to an infantile whimper.
Lise began to whimper, and suddenly buried her face in the pillow.
Frederica shall be Sir James's wife before she quits my house, and she may whimper, and the Vernons may storm, I regard them not.
A search party was unable to find Lyra that evening, but the following morning Paul Simpson located the dog's whimper down the 25ft high crevice of a 90ft cliff.
So he arose and trotted forlornly back to camp, pausing once, and twice, to sit down and whimper and to listen to the call that still sounded in the depths of the forest.
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