whimper

Insatiably avid For the dark and the uncertain, I shall not whimper like Ovid Chased from his Latin paradise.

Then Kenobi flexed his hips and retreated nearly all the way out of her body, tearing a whimper from her lips.

"It's a very ticklish business, this, Mr Steger, " put in the manager, yieldingly, and yet with a slight whimper in his voice.

We don't want to go out with a whimper. We know we have to be cautious but we cannot be over-cautious.

When he couldn't find his mother in the department store, the little boy began to whimper in fright.

You seem to always unpredictable drifting clouds, rain whimper as the tears in my heart all over her Helinyulu.

THE demise of GM had been expected for so long that when it finally died there was barely a whimper. Wall Street was unmoved.

The only unknown was whether the system would disappear with a bang or a whimper.

Instead, he said, people got "a whimper, not a scream. "

A small whimper sounded in the back of Legolas' throat, but there was no other sound.

The tailor's wife bore a bundle in her arms, and the bundle began to whimper.

Strange as it may sound, a downgrade could resound in financial markets more with a whimper than a bang.

Highway passing is a breeze and the 335i will happily take its passengers up to too-high triple digit speeds without a whimper.

And if he starts to whimper, I'll just harmonize with him.

"Don't go out with a whimper; go out with a bang! Undertake an eco-kamikaze mission. "

In fact, this "milestone" came and went with a whimper for me.

NO ONE expected a bang; but the idea of a cap on America's carbon emissions died with barely the bathos of a whimper.

But in a world where protest often fizzles down to nothing, or tails off to a whimper, we need Ruskin's voice.

We've just got to win our games and not end the group on a whimper.

Have I not talkative of the silent at this time, a whimper in the classroom is the only exist.

A evening such as this was never going to end with a whimper and Sheva's deflection from Lincoln's drive set up a grandstand finish.

This slam-bang earnings season is likely to start with a whimper. But that doesn't mean markets won't end up feeling pretty good.

Jessica began to whimper softly, and Susan took her from Dad's arms.

Caught forever in their shallow thoughts, they whimper like small children, afraid of what they cannot understand.

You will no doubt begin to moan, groan and whimper.

I could whimper and whine about all the slack I'm having to pick up, but in the end, it would all just take longer.

She let out a whimper, brush-like sword admission back again.

Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over.

The debt ceiling was raised without so much as a whimper every other year of W's presidency and guess what.

Britain's new coalition government seems intent on bowing out without so much as a whimper.

In short, bear markets sometimes end with a bang, sometimes with a whimper.

He could take the dullest technical specification, the processing speed of a laptop, and make grown audiences whimper with pleasure.

When we used to pick up from the kennel he would whimper and carry on for hours.

Judged against Labour budgets of yore, this one was a whimper.

Some experts maintain that infants display empathy when they whimper or cry upon hearing another baby cry.

As we walked by a farmhouse, a feeble whimper from behind made us turn around to locate the source.

And when they finally die, they die with a whimper, not with a loud cry.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

To weep or whimper lightly with spasmodic congestion of the nose.

Sometimes they figure out that they get attention when they whimper and use this to their advantage.

all refunds were made without a whimper.

Long days of grief, mountains whimper, then how tragic the situation, how touching ah!

Instead of a whimper, their limited universe will end witha bang.

With one final whimper he turned and headed east.

Pinhead : Save your tears. I'll reap your sorrow slowly. I have centuries to discover the things that make you whimper.

Some of us whimper that life's all wrong.

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

Japan has given up its crown with barely a whimper.

Japan's efforts to tackle these problems have resembled a big whimper (see article).

So this is the way the quarter ends: not with a whimper but with a bang.

Japan's efforts to tackle these problems have resembled a big whimper (see article). What is needed is a big bang.

This is the way England usually do it, with a whimper.

Dogs whimper when they're anxious or hurt.

I am geek, hear me whimper!

Whimper refers to low, plaintive broken or repressed cries, as those made by a child: