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whimper

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Recent Examples of whimper
Noun
Sign up for Axios Latino Dan Primack Dec 31, 2024 - Business Stocks finish strong 2024 with a whimper Stocks soared in 2024, despite a rough final week that wiped out the S&P 500's post-election rally. Felix Salmon, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025 The final horn sounded, mercifully, the players shook hands, and the Aztecs shuffled off the floor, through a tunnel and into the quiet of their locker room, their season ending with a whimper instead of a bang. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
Verb
My partner came home from work to find a sullen child whimpering in his room. Jann Blackstone, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2025 My poor mother was reduced to a whimpering mess . . . Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for whimper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whimper
Noun
  • Roxy doesn't take her eyes from the screen, and when Aishah turns the camera to show what's happening in the movie, Roxy can be heard making a noise somewhere between a growl and a whine.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Inside the fence, the atmosphere was oddly peaceful, and sometimes so quiet that the loudest noise was the whine of an overhead drone.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 May 2025
Verb
  • Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.
    Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2025
  • Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin cried on the air over their pets.
    Joey Nolfi Published, EW.com, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • Cannon complained to Delta and to the Department of Transportation, which regulates airlines.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 17 May 2025
  • That also prompted a number of customers to complain about the issue on social media.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The eyes start rolling and the moans come out when dudes get super gooned.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 6 May 2025
  • The courtroom reverberated with the anguished moans and last breaths of Brianna Kupfer.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Creators posted videos of themselves sobbing onto the camera.
    Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2025
  • Through the decades, this was the county that gave us the judge who sobbed while issuing a ruling in the Anna Nicole Smith case, the judge who was found half-naked at a judicial conference, and the judges, plural, who had faced DUI charges.
    Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • Downstairs on the fairy-tale terrace, over an exorbitant Scottish cheese board, her mother and husband and sister were all screaming at one another.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • Videos posted to social media appear to show the mast of the ship crashing into the bridge just before 8:30 p.m., as passengers and nearby onlookers screamed, prompting an immediate search and rescue operation on the East River for the injured and overboard passengers.
    Alexandra Koch , Alexis McAdams , CB Cotton , Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • The complaint says a 58-year-old woman showed up at AdventHealth TimberRidge ER in Ocala with chills, fever and numbness in her hands and face.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 May 2025
  • According to the complaint, the water district and county have rejected Kenny’s legal claims, which typically precede a lawsuit against a government agency and give both parties a chance to settle the allegations themselves before going to court.
    Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • Sheep were bleating, kicking, and being hurled in all directions.
    Cyril E. Holland, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2025
  • Then Elliott bashes the bleating thing’s brains in.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Whimper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whimper. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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