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zizz

[ziz] / zɪz /


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As she spoke, the gnat-like zizz of an Israeli drone circling overhead grew louder.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 12, 2023

And now, having reached the end of the alphabet, I think I shall go off and have a quiet zizz.

From The Guardian Jun. 5, 2012

Such was the concentration that I held my breath lest I disturb a worker whose electric scissors "zizzed" deftly on a panel of perfect lace as she cut a scalloped edge.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2011

It glowed and fairly zizzed with colour, and had that radiating, vibrating quality that things have in the hot sunshine.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen

And suddenly it zizzed right out of Schlorge's forceps and went buzzing straight off to the flowery hedge.

From The Garden of the Plynck by Minard, Florence

There’s a bicyclist or two or twenty, speeding home after work, their wheels zizzing by her.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Leaning trolleys went zizzing along the banked highways, and at the ends of the unpaved avenues there were flat gleams of the lake.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

The mixture seemed to agree with it, too, for the familiar faint, pale-blue "zizzing" sound began to come from its wings.

From The Garden of the Plynck by Minard, Florence




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