whir
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Over the whine of buzzsaws and the steady whir of sanders, hundreds of Vietnamese workers in a factory outside Ho Chi Minh City hustle to fill orders for high-end furniture.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
In Boland's following over, England fell apart in a whir of loose drives.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
The capital greets us not with wild crowds, but with shadowed buildings and the whir of taxis along San Jerónimo Street.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
Overhead, the whir of drones is constant—as many as 10 Russian craft for every Ukrainian one, according to Ukrainian troops.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
The sound of the machine had grown suddenly louder, changing from a whir to a roar.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Vocabulary lists containing whir
Lawn Boy
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