whirr
Example Sentences
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It was quiet enough that you could hear a handful of people crying, above the somehow blaring whirr of the escalators.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2024
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
I set out to visit the clank and whirr and hiss of the factory.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
