whimper
Speech parts
1. whimper - Noun
2. whimper - Verb
Meaning
To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers.
To utter in alow, whining tone.
A low, whining, broken cry; a low, whining sound, expressive of complaint or grief.
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she wailed with pain
And as is the case so many times in life, the relationship between Leary and Harcourt-Smith ended, after all the convolutions and mystifications, not with a bang or even a whimper, but a simple betrayal.
‘10-9-8-7-6-Cue Camera A-5-4-3-2-1…’ The TV news ended with a whimper and as the lights and cameras are switched off anchor man Howard Beale is told he was being let go due to the show’s low ratings.
If that happens, Osaka Ishin and Nippon Ishin, formed with a bang nearly 10 years ago, could go out with a whimper, serving as a cautionary tale for those elsewhere in Japan anxious to start their own local political parties.
They barely gave a whimper after the first term as the contest devolved into a glorified GWS training run.
As the dead prey on the living… The end of the world has come not with a bang or a whimper, but with the guttural snarl of walking corpses hungry for human flesh.