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

All about, the forest spoke, sometimes sounds of animals, sometimes the white whirr of insect wings, sometimes only the trees shifting gently.

From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi