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Verb
Wild ponies, svelte & savage, graze in dune grasses, whinny, yawn.—J.t. Townley, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025 This works, Brian says, and leans back against the wall, the dog panting less, the faint whinny of a horse, an airplane.—Paul Yoon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024 One of the horses fell on its side, its high whinny like a human scream.—Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022 Laughter punctuates the exaggerated whinnies, proving that the source is not in fact a horse.—Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, 11 June 2018 But the methodical, meditative act of grooming a horse — brush, brush, brush — and the smell of hay and the gentle whinnies from the 1,200-pound creature have been therapy for Alger.—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 17 May 2018 An astonishing collection of laughs — whinnies, giggles, squeals, snorts, heaves — gradually colors the narrative, until this seemingly harmless man becomes, in effect, not just a witness to savagery, but also an accessory.—Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018 Animal grunts and growls, horse neighs and whinnies.—Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018 More important, the track is where Charley meets a pretty quarter horse named Lean on Pete, whose velvety brown coat and barely audible whinnies become a balm for the lonely teenager.—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
Noun
The downy woodpecker also whinnies like a miniature horse throughout the breeding season.—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025 That doesn’t include food for the horses, who start whinnying.—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024 Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth is one of the oldest proverbs known to humankind, whinnying back at least 1,500 years.—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024 Kenny was large for his age, with a flat, flabby face and a high, whinnying voice.—Aryn Kyle, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024 Waffles, patient and unbothered as onlookers walked around and stopped to gaze, nickered as another horse on the other side of the massive stalls whinnied.—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024 Some unidentified whinnying joins the cacophony that accompanies gentrification—brash and brazen, with a total disregard for anything other than its own bullish desire.—Rebecca Haithcoat, GQ, 5 June 2018 The 10-year-old mare bucked, whinnied, and galloped, sensing the pride of victory.—Mitchell Gladstone, Philly.com, 2 June 2018 The forecast was calling for rain the next day, an element as necessary for all this — the flowering plant life, the whinnying animal life — as is the sun.—John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
The screech of an infected is the first sign of trouble.
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EW.com,
EW.com,
19 May 2025
The constant clang of metal and the screech of drills suggest the sort of work underway at a warehouse-turned-workshop in this Ukrainian city about 300 kilometers (180 miles) east of Kyiv.
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Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 June 2025
The gym was quiet, echoing only the squeal of sneakers and pounding of the basketball instead of the music and laughter that typically accompany a pregame training session.
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Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
5 June 2025
Their squeals and laughter echoed against the mountains.
This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
Moments later, the bear rushes in, bites the fawn in the back, and violently shakes it as the fawn lets out piercing bleats.
The Dino up for sale is a 246 GTS variant with a removable roof panel for when the sun is out and the driver wants to really hear the roar of its engine.
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
24 June 2025
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That day, a shepherd posted cell phone footage of an Israeli C-130 low in the sky over Syria, sheep bells clanking over the roar of the engines.
Yungblud’s voice — a piercing yelp that exists somewhere between Gerard Way’s wail and Brian Molko’s sneer — slotted him in the alt-rock world, but his aspirations seemed to stretch far beyond that categorization.
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Maura Johnston,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
Throughout the flight, excited reactions and yelps could be heard from the crew over the live stream's audio feed.
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