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How to use whirr in a sentence

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I heard the beep and the whirr of some kind of machinery, but I couldn't see because my sight was focused on the ceiling.
The familiar whirr of the tram, the particular clicking noise the indicators make when we pause at stops.
And with every response young minds click and whirr, evaluating and digesting the information.
You could hear the whirr and hum of political calculation, the internal hedging of bets.
Despite the clanking disc and the whirr of the drive belt, the unbelievable was happening.
The images were projected on a white cotton sheet, and the loud whirr of the generator muffled the sound.
I heard the shower stop, a brief pause, then the whirr of an electric toothbrush started up.
Jeck's endlessly rotating platters, like the whirr of moving film, serve as a constant reminder of the time-based nature of the medium.
He pressed a few buttons, bleeps and toots sounding in the room along with the soft whirr of the air conditioner.
But this isn't a man who turns on the charm at the hint of a camera flash or the whirr of a journalist's Dictaphone.
I sit on the bank and listen to the night birds, the whirr of mossies and the old ladies' soft murmurings.
It was after three a.m. when the whirr of a single projector gave way to the roar of three projectors running simultaneously.
Around them dappled sunlight, birdsong and the whirr of busy wings.
The cartoons zing, whirr, and reverberate harmonically, making each entry a sort of duet.
They fear the roar of the V8 will be replaced by the whirr of the electric armature and that motoring will never be the same again.
One of the principal causes of the whirr is depression partial of soft fabrics to the back of the throat.
It is the adjective often used to qualify that or that which produces a noise of whirr definitely higher than the average.
Natural breathing through the respiratory tracts can produce a noise of whirr when these fabrics vibrate.
Silence is the first Anti Total Whirr of new generation which acts immediately on fabrics of the throat, principal origin of the whirr.
It is the 1st anti total whirr which acts into simultaneous during all the night, on the two causes of the whirr.
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Examples from Classical Literature
As we ride through the scrub the whirr of the red-legged partridge sends an involuntary hand to the gun.
The hum of the cicala, the whirr of the darting dragon-fly, the call of the bright-green tree-frog sounded in his ear.
There was the whirr of an electric bell, and she knew that Anthony had come.
One of his sounds or calls is like the buzz of a reel or the whirr of an alarm-clock.
As he was lifting it off the fire he heard a whirr of wings above his head.
But as she looked this way and that way, Iduna heard a whirr of wings above her.
The whirr of the rattle went on for a second or two, then gradually subsided.
It comes at you with the speed of a rocket, with the whizz and whirr of a racing motor.
Turkeys run into the coppice, and pheasants whirr up from the path.
A night-hawk swooped past the window with a startling whirr of wings.
For a moment I thought it was due to the whirr of our own wheels.
A rabbit or two scuttled away, and a pheasant flew off with a whirr.
Paul's cheery soprano, lifted in a hymn, doated through the trees, accompanied by the whirr of an egg-beater.
The buzzer's whirr triggered his muscles into complete relaxation.
The whirr of that arrow lived in Roger's mind the rest of his days.
Even as he looked one of the archers drew his sword with a sharp whirr of steel and stept up to the lost man.
At the signal, a loud whirr of wings in quick flight was heard and a large Falcon came and settled itself on the window ledge.
And very faint now, but very distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rifles.
Most suddenly I heard the whirr of his hated reel, as he struck a fish.
Even from where they sat they could hear the faint whirr of a dynamo.
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