WHINNY in a Sentence

Learn WHINNY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
12 example sentences for WHINNY, such as:
1. When you laugh through nose, it sounded as if you whinny.
2. He threw himself back in his chair and laughed, like a horse whinnying.
3. All was in dead, grim silence only that the horses whinnied and cowered, as if in terror of the worst.
4. The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it.
5. The laugh, pitched in a high key and coming from a so muscular frame, seemed like the whinny of an elephant.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WHINNY
whinny
 v.  neigh, as a horse, especially in gentle tone; cry of horse
Classic Sentence:
1  Suddenly he heard the old sorrel whinny across the road, and thought: "He's wondering why he doesn't get his supper."
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Just as they started he heard the sorrel's whinny again, and the familiar wistful call, and all the confused images it brought with it, went with him down the first reach of the road.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Oh, Matt, I thought we'd fetched it," he moaned; and far off, up the hill, he heard the sorrel whinny, and thought: "I ought to be getting him his feed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The laugh, pitched in a high key and coming from a so muscular frame, seemed like the whinny of an elephant.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  Lynch broke again into a whinny of laughter and again rubbed both his hands over his groins but without taking them from his pockets.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  He fidgeted to and fro, swishing his long black tail against his sides and occasionally uttering a little whinny of surprise.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
7  When they did feel my hands on them, they whinnied low as in joy, and licked at my hands and were quiet for a time.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  All was in dead, grim silence only that the horses whinnied and cowered, as if in terror of the worst.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
10  He threw himself back in his chair and laughed, like a horse whinnying.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
Example Sentence:
1  When you laugh through nose, it sounded as if you whinny.
2  A horse whinnied and reared; the troop trotted quickly out of the inn yard towards the high road.