whirr

How To Use whirr In A Sentence

• As he rode along the lanes, his nostrils filled with the heady scent of elderflowers, and the air was alive with stag beetles whose chunky black bodies whirred defiantly through the dusk.
• In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed. From Guyana to Guiana
• It is snapping and whirring, emitting a high-pitched tome like the mewling of a cat. Death's Noisy Herald
• From the seed feeders on the deck come the euphonious calls of chickadees, the bell-like trill of the dark-eyed juncos, the down-slurred whistle of the titmice, the “ank-ank” of the nuthatches, the “zree” of the house finches, and the coo of doves; from the nectar feeders and flowers, the whirr of hummingbird wings. Birdology
• When your brain is whirring constantly with the almost infinite depths of chess, behind the wheel of a Porsche is not where you should be. Times, Sunday Times
• You can practically hear the cogs whirring inside the most restless mind in sport. Times, Sunday Times
• That music is the creative force at work, the whirr of the loom of the Eternal; it is the golden-snooded Muses at song. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
• Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
• I could feel his mind whirring. Times, Sunday Times
• The only sound is the whirr of the freewheels and the hoosh of hard exhalations. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs