Read full poem →Close at my heel with yelping treble flies;
The whimpering girl, and hoarser-screaming boy,
Join to the yelping treble shrilling cries;
Dictionary Entry
To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
In a Sentence
“The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. whimperingsound whimperingwhimpering littlewhimpering stillwhimpering startedwhimpering began
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Poetry examples for “whimpering”
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Read full poem →Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity
goes to the fourth-remov’d,