Example Sentences

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Purring or hissing, we say what we mean.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023

Purring is not passive: each pulse of the purr is made by voluntary contraction of the muscles around the larynx.

From Time • Aug. 3, 2012

Purring over the Southern Pacific's tracks toward parched Humboldt River Canyon, some 250 miles east of Reno, one night last week rolled the super-streamliner City of San Francisco.

From Time Magazine Archive

Purring out of Paris a sleek car carried new French Premier Leon Blum last week to Geneva.

From Time Magazine Archive

Purring with restrained pleasure, the cat walked in, suffering a boisterous welcome from his old friend before investigating the empty bowl.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford