Over all the field there was only the whinnyingof swords as they whistled through the air, and at the edges of the fray the dropping rattle of the musketry.
Gash Gibbie moved his shoulders, and made a kind of nichering laugh to himself, like a young horse whinnyingfor its corn.
All the horses one had ever loved would take shape in the air, with necks stretched and whinnying recognition.
And your cry would be heard no more than the whinnying of the curlew.
But as we descended once more, a snorting, whinnying noise from the mules came from within, and in our excitement and alarm we were about to thrust in the sand again to bury our treasure, only reason told us of the folly of the act.
I trembled, though, lest he should hear the whinnying of the mules, which, though distant, might have reached to where he stood.
He walked away hurriedly into the darkness, and they followed, to hear him talking directly after to the mule, which responded with a low whinnying sound.
At that moment a peculiar whinnying noise fell upon his ears, and he started off down the mountain side in the direction from which the sound had come.
Lowing of cattle, bleating of sheep, braying of mules, and whinnying of horses never ceased as the suffering animals wandered in search of food.
A halt was ordered and the men directed to prevent the animals from betraying our presence by whinnying or braying.
At the same moment the tethered animal again uttered a long whinnying cry, plaintive, yet of pleasure rather than alarm it seemed, which instantly brought the man again with a leap from the blankets to his knees.
The sack he held had toppled over; the cheese and flour rolled upon the ground; and from the horse came that long-drawn whinnying of the night.
Under the revolving colors of the floodlight and the hammering, whinnying music of the jazz band they became again the mask of Dionysus--the ancient satanical mask which nature slips over her head when in quest of diversion.
They come whinnying after him like a flock of sheep whenever he shows himself.
On the other side of the wall they heard the whinnying of the old mare, the sound of galloping feet from all directions.
Dyke felt that as he staggered to meet the cob, and the beautiful little animal stumbled toward him, whinnying joyfully, seeing for the time nothing but its master, to whom it looked for protection.
Hope once more, for the whinnying sounded loudly now; and in spite of the presence of the lion a couple of hundred yards behind its master, Breezy suddenly came toward where Dyke stood, advancing in a stumbling canter.
For the mare at the first sound of his voice had turned in her loose-box, and was whinnying and pawing the ground eagerly.
The shrillwhinnying of a horse came to them from a distance.
His bridle he flung down over his horse's head, which seemingly anchored the animal, spite of its loud whinnying challenge to these near-by stolid creatures which showed harness rubs and not whitened saddle hairs.
Turning, he trotted whinnying as though for aid, obedient to his master's command, "Come here!
As Salt neared the fence, the mate who for years had plodded beside him began to tear around and around the field, snorting, whinnying and giving way to the wildest excitement.
Presently he led him away, the matewhinnying and calling after his companion in a manner truly pathetic.
They rushed to Peggy's side, whinnying their "Hello!
He had not finished speaking when his horse threw itself back on its haunches all at once, trembling and whinnying loudly.
Then he heard at the other end of the wood the plaintive whinnying of a horse.
He found the stable door unlocked, and the gray mare kicking impatiently about, and whinnying for her foal.
The next morning the jolly harper man was seen riding out of Striveling town on a fine gray mare; but a little colt was heard whinnying alone in the high fenced lot on the side of the hill.
His mother, whinnying loudly, followed him and broke into such a hard gallop that the little girl was bounced rudely about and would have fallen to the ground had not the hame-straps firmly held her.
She was acting strangely, wavering from side to side as if she were anxious to turn, at the same time keeping her head high and whinnying nervously.
I brushed away the mosquitoes and was watching him hop away gratefully to another cover, when down from mid-sky came a rippling whinnyingnote as if from some far-away aeolian harp.
There was a plaintive whinnying cry, and the reddened snow told the rest.
Little bunches of horses, and brood mares followed by their long-legged, awkward foals, gallop beside our cavalcade, whinnying and kicking up their heels in the joy of freedom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whinnying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
