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whirs

noun as in commotion

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Without the beeps and whirs of a cellphone, you can use your ears to detect crickets, mice, or other vermin in your home.

He strokes the photocopier; he adores the machine, the way it flashes like lightning as it works, the way it whirs and hums.

She dashes her sentences with inarticulate whirs and whistles, and countless pious interjections: Gracias Dios!

And now—eight years after—'Mahbin Mill hums and whirs more merrily than ever.

At that moment he heard the whistle of a train, and between the whirs of the wind he heard the tinkle of the signal bell.

It whirs and buzzes and backs and starts and whirs and buzzes over and over again.

The commander drops his plate, shouts a short, crisp command, and an electric alarm whirs inside the egg-shell.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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