'whining' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a high-pitched, continuous sound for example: "The baby was whining in his crib for hours."
The Department of Justice is looking for scalps – finally, after five years of drowsy hibernation – but some banks are whining about merely getting haircuts.
Pointing to the lack of crowds baying for politicians' and bankers' blood outside the Dail she quipped that the Irish were "too busy whining about the politicians and the bankers on the Joe Duffy Show" to go out demonstrating.
There are, however, a few millionaires who agree that most people should just be working harder and whining less.
The arrival at the airport was obvious because of the whining of the engines, which easily went through the earplugs.
There's the whining, flared synthesisers of Send It Up, the distorted glam-rock stomp of Black Skinhead, and the neutered drone of I'm in It.
Anywhere you go in the centre, the familiar whining and clattering from the tram echoes throughout the streets, becoming part of a hum that is distinctly Budapest.
And sure, whining about the winter is cliché, but why did this one stick to our ribs for so long?
Even to themselves, the whining sounds like "poor me".
She is right, but she needs to stop whining: the government bears much of the blame.
There is lots of fraud in Philadelphia elections, he went on, and besides, those "whining" about lacking voter ID through their representatives in the ACLU or other groups quickly get ID cards.
That, he says in a parody of Islamist rhetoric, would show nosy secularists, whining human-rights groups and meddling Western governments who is boss.
