(1) Maybe the guy who predicted that the world will end with a whimper instead of a bang was right.

(2) This conclusion comes with a bang, not a whimper and is the only possible finale for such a sizzling firework display of a book.

(3) Announcing his retirement at this week's Christmas concert at Selby Abbey, he went out not with a whimper but a bang, and a departing salvo aimed at New Labour.

(4) As that arch-modernist T. S. Eliot predicted, u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper .u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(5) They have to know they were lucky to get out of Miami with Kerry having scored a whimper rather than a bang.

(6) She gave a little whimper of protest

(7) U251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Right now all you do is try not to squint or whimper at the pain,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb he said as he began to walk behind her.

(8) It could make such a difference to your day when you started with a bang, not a whimper !

(9) Their first appearance in the top flight ended with a whimper rather than a bang

(10) A soft whimper echoed through the cavern, and he stopped.

(11) It seems unfair that a man of such vitality, intelligence, and formidable personality ended his public career with more of a whimper than a bang.

(12) Help my pledge drive go out with a bang, not a whimper .

(13) They ended four hours and a couple hundred miles away in Virginia, succumbing to the normal internal tensions and apathy, the all-too-common whimper instead of a bang.

(14) Bonfire night celebrations in Middleton, near Pickering, may go off with a whimper rather than a bang this year after the village bonfire party was cancelled.

(15) Well, to use the clichu00d4u00f6u00a3u252cu00ab, it ended with a whimper , not a bang.

(16) A child in a bed nearby began to whimper

(17) Contrary to every expectation, its advent has been greeted with more of a bang than a whimper .

(18) It's sad to see such a provocative thinker go out with a whimper instead of a bang.

(19) How could he simply throw in the towel - not with a bang but a whimper - and in such an unseemly way?

(20) The question is, will he go out with a whimper , or a bang?