Whimper

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

Whimper all you want. Nobody will do this for you, anyway. Don't even get your hopes up.

The bunny asked with a whimper, "Are you going to eat me?" To which the fox replied, "Why would I? I'm a vegetarian."

Nine-month-old David drops to his knees, crawls toward a bottle of milk on the counter and begins to whimper.

Ziri heard a whimper in the distance. It sounded like a dog crying.

The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.

At the sight of Mr. Utterson, the housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering; and the cook, crying out 'Bless God! it's Mr. Utterson,' ran forward as if to take him in her arms.

Was ther euer yet prechers, but ther wer gainſayers? that ſpurned? that winſt? that whimpered againſt him?

“Master, please don’t punish me!” he whimpered.

Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.