whimper 的 3 个定义
- to cry with low, plaintive, broken sounds.
- to utter in a whimper.
- a whimpering cry or sound.
whimper 近义词
cry softly
更多whimper例句
- Experts have long predicted that the pandemic will end with a whimper, not a bang.
- For instance, stars burn through their hydrogen fuel, puff up and eventually expel their gases into space, whether with a bang or a whimper.
- Yet, rather than following the path laid out in its shadow docket decisions this term, Fulton ended instead with a whimper.
- For much of its run, Game of Thrones was the biggest show on television, and then it went out with a whimper.
- Dems in disarrayThe 2020 election ended in a whimper yesterday evening, when Democrat Rita Hart suspended her challenge to the results in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District.
- Did the French monarchy end not with a bang—or a whimper—but a smile?
- As ends of eras go, he recalls, it was mostly whimper and not much bang.
- Democratic capitalism had won the Cold War not with a bang, but a whimper.
- In Kyushu, where the yakuza are deeply rooted, they are not leaving with a whimper, they are leaving with a bang.
- Without a bang or a whimper, the Grand Bargain died this week.
- He turned kind of white around the gills when he first felt the halter around his neck, and then braced up and not a whimper.
- By this time the bent figure sitting in the rocking-chair, near the coffin began to show signs of life and whimper a little.
- The whimper grew to a cry which Bud's rude rocking back and forth on the box before the fireplace could not still.
- Just look at those poor boys there—some of them are dying, almost, but they won't whimper.
- In the ominous silence the dog began to whimper in his sleep and his hind legs kicked convulsively.