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 southward from Washington through a chill morning overcast, the presidential Constellation Columbine headed for Fort Benning, Ga., and landed.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Just kidding. Have I told you about the Purring Palace?”

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth