noun
definition
A low intermittent sob.
verb
definition
To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
example
The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.
definition
To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
definition
To say something in a whimpering manner.
example
"Master, please don't punish me!" he whimpered.
Examples of whimper in a Sentence
Perhaps I was being unfair but everything we'd been able to do was close to ending with a sad whimper, due to the greed of this woman.
The puppy let out a plaintive whimper when the girl stepped on its foot.
She started to groan with pleasure, but it came out more an eager whimper that sent a rush of heat to her face.
He got no response, but heard a whimper.
The growl of a demoness was almost a whimper.
Even though these are virtual dogs composed of lines of code and polygons, they still tug at your heart and make onlookers coo and whimper at their cuteness.
Suddenly, you hear a faint electrical whimper and your screen is now pictureless and void.
When the Soviet Union dissolved only two years later, not with a bang but with a whimper, we were slack-jawed with surprise.
Tears in her eyes, she whispered to him as she lifted him, tormented by the sound of his whimper.
I most emphatically do not whimper, never have done, never will.
With a small whimper, Anna leaned forward, kissed the surprisingly cold signet, then silently cursed the man who wore it.
Andy Murray briefly raised our pulses, but then finished with a whimper and Tim Henman was more pussycat than tiger this year.
On such shifting sands are the pensions of future generations to be built with barely a whimper of protest from Britain's trade unions.
A stomach which he had fallen rather into the habit of pampering of late years gave a little whimper of apprehension.
In the average mainland " community ", the dawn raid and deportation of such a foreign national would have raised hardly a whimper.
Apparently, the dinosaurs let out a pathetic whimper before they became extinct.
And it is especially undignified to whimper in print when you are wrong.
She moved close to the bars and sat, never losing his gaze, then tilted her head and let out a soft whimper.