- a variation of whir.
whirr
Example Sentences
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The air above Palau's pristine waters smells of salt and breadfruit, and on calm mornings in Koror, Palau's commercial centre, the whirr of dive boat engines echoes across the bay.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
Zhang occasionally tosses in a distant whirr like the kind you hear in sci-fi films denoting an approaching UFO.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
At an unfinished Country Garden residential complex on the outskirts of the northern Chinese metropolis of Tianjin, construction has slowed to a dull whirr and a few idle workers roam a near-empty site.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2023
For years after she arrived in Sweden as a refugee in 1992, the whirr of helicopters made her instinctively want to run for cover.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
As be did this, another arrow came whirr and frump, but this one buried all except its feathers in the grass, and stayed still, as if it had never moved.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
