Sentence examples for whining for from inspiring English sources

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Stop listening to their whining for attention.

Am I whining for no reason?

Getting in Uncle Jasper's way, whining for a corner of their mother's attention.

Furthermore, Martial cringed before men of wealth and influence, unashamedly whining for gifts and favours.

To turn off the President's whinging whining for a quarter of an hour?

He is a sulky but submissive child, incessantly whining for cigarettes.

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Even Aeneas's men, in the midst of recreational games, can whine for prizes, their vanity and passions stronger than any visions of communal good.

They cut deals, traded horses, preened (and sometimes whined) for the cameras, and cast their votes on a mix of principle, pique and political self-interest, rather than just falling into line for or against the Obama agenda.

"We have to atone to our clients, but we have no right to whine for ourselves," said Clifford Asness, the co-founder of AQR Capital Management, a money management firm that has been much in the news recently.

Unfortunately, the one-piece zippered pajamas that would have made my 3-year-old look winning even if she appeared at 2 a.m. at the side of my bed to whine for a glass of water were out of stock.

M. Lopez is required to deal with thirteen children in one classroom: the youngest are three-year-olds who whine for their mamans and the oldest are roly-poly, fistfighting eleven-year-olds.

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