whirr

Example Sentences

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Forklifts whirr along, pallets laden with red, white and fizz.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

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

Critics argue that the whirr of chopper blades is drowning out the sound of birds, bubbling lava and babbling brooks.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

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

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