verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dog whines (= makes a long high sound because it is unhappy or in pain )
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I could hear the dogs whining outside the door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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She ignores me, whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet's Head.
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Stop whining about not having enough free time.
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No whining about how tough it will be to start over, no self-congratulatory odes to her own courage.
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Paying 28 percent on capital-gains income is hardly a burden to whine about .
■ VERB
stop
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At the sound of my voice they stopped whining so I didn't know where to look.
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What surprised her was that they stopped whining at once.
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Sometime that year he stopped whining .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What did you do that for?" he whined.
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For heaven's sake stop whining. Nobody has touched your precious records.
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He's always whining about how much everything costs.
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Stop whining, or you won't get any candy.
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The dog's whining for food.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And that part of my mind seemed to whine faintly and go very cold and still.
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Gas pedal to the floor, we backed up with the engine whining and the chassis shaking.
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He did the same, now making occasional soft whining grunts.
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She was whining to him about how Eyas Securities had played this awful trick on her, how embarrassing it all was.
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The only human notes in the dull and humorless whining are cigarette references.
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The van sped into the Marble Arch roundabout with tyres whining.
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We get together, start whining, and then we go on strike.
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You're ugly enough without starting to whine .