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

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

For years after she arrived in Sweden as a refugee in 1992, the whirr of helicopters made her instinctively want to run for cover.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2022

There was a sort of whirr and then the cardboard box began to move through the water.

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan