whir

Example Sentences

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Over the whine of buzzsaws and the steady whir of sanders, hundreds of Vietnamese workers in a factory outside Ho Chi Minh City hustle to fill orders for high-end furniture.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Golf cart-like vehicles guide tourists through a whir of mechanical arms and machines die casting, stamping and assembling car bodies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

In Boland's following over, England fell apart in a whir of loose drives.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

The capital greets us not with wild crowds, but with shadowed buildings and the whir of taxis along San Jerónimo Street.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

For an instant Matt thought she meant the passage, but then he heard the sound of chairs being moved and the whir of a machine.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer