How to Use whiny in a Sentence

whiny

adjective
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  • Baker signed on as front man for a bunch of whiny cheaters.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2020
  • And for Luis, Julio is a whiny pain in the ass who just might pester him into getting his life back on track.
    — Time, 28 July 2023
  • The league had determined that fans thought players were too whiny.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Expanding the playoffs is the right thing to do and has nothing to do with appeasing the whiny Big Ten and Pac-12.
    — Tom D'angelo, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Your whiny neighbor may take the form of a yowling cat, for example.
    — Jennifer King Lindley, Health.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Over the coming decades, drillers are poised to become even more whiny and reactionary than ever.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But, as Cole became successful, his raps grew myopic and a bit whiny.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 18 May 2021
  • The Rams will beat the 49ers like the Dodgers beat the Giants, only it will be decided long before the final pitch, and there will be no whiny finish.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Despite my whiny complaints, the scan was totally worth it.
    — Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • This person had more than a year to prepare for the move, but didn’t plan ahead for many of the tasks and now is overwhelmed, needy, whiny and complaining constantly.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But knowing that somehow makes Anakin a little less mythical and a little more like me as a whiny kid after a long day at the shore.
    — EW.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But the show was awfully unkind to Steve, who seemed whiny, confused and enfeebled.
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The star takes a whiny victim role and turns it into a master class in reactive comic acting.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Roads could be busy, delays could be frequent, and kids will absolutely be whiny.
    — Jessica Hullinger, The Week, 22 June 2021
  • The result pierced the torpor and discontent of the last year and put an end to all those whiny questions about whether fashion really matters any more.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2021
  • What kind of man, several wondered, would marry a dumb, whiny, shrill feminist like this?
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Archers were stumbling titans who blended the anthemic and the personal, the perfectly collapsing riff and the whiny complaint.
    — Joe Gross, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Chatterjee, a box-office favourite, was stripped of all his charm and cast as a whiny old writer and alcoholic who routinely pisses his pants.
    — Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
  • Paired with a whiny Lineartronic CVT transmission, road noise was at the forefront and noticeable for all passengers.
    — Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Their victories have worked like chlorine in the whiny conservative swamp that was Orange County.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
  • At first the Beastie Boys blare out on the soundtrack; seconds later, their music disappears into Kendall’s headphones, and viewers hear his whiny voice rapping the lyrics.
    — Delia Casadei, The Conversation, 31 May 2023
  • Warming up after a debut consisting of two relatively tepid and whiny episodes, Dexter: New Blood is chipping the ice on the fun of the original series in episode three.
    — Kelly McClure, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2021
  • Your very opinionated, independent and annoyed tween will flop on the couch next to you and want to cuddle after a long day or will become whiny and needy at seemingly strange times.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Back in 2016, when Trump made his voter-fraud accusations against Cruz, the Texas senator correctly pinned it all on whiny-baby syndrome.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • For instance, mid-celebration, a birthday celebrant received a whiny hungry call from her husband, and zap, my bill increased by $100.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • And the loud-and-clear message is that so many years making so much money with unbridled power has made Ferentz soft, whiny and ultimately ineffective.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The president was whiny, unhinged, and in short supply of any evidence for his increasingly fantastical claims of an election snatched from him by evil Democrats, conniving journalists, and on-the-take judges.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Parents are probably paying for your whiny students to attend your pricey university.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Some see the book and accompanying media blitz as whiny indulgence — and just the opposite of the late Queen Elizabeth II, who was praised for her duty, service, honor and inscrutable quiet on all things familial.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
  • That Sophie tolerates this while also taking nearly sole responsibility for their two children, who could not possibly be as whiny as her husband, is something of a mystery, at least for a half-hour.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023

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