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
According to the dictionary, birred means: “To make or move with a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.” I HEART BACON
As I scurried to retrieve my smalls, the whirr of a dozen camera motor drives signalled that the whole unhappy episode was being captured on film.
The machine whirred to life and slowly began descending.
They said late-night displays and a constant stream of excessive noise caused by the whirr of rides and screams from thrill-seekers had made their lives a ‘nightmare’.
With a sudden gushing sound, the fans on the ceiling whirred into movement. DESPERADOES
The blind old owl, whirring out of the hollow tree, quite amazed at the disturbance, flounced into the face of a ploughboy, who knocked her down with a pitchfork. The Newcomes
There was a whirring sound, then the clock's chime marked a quarter to midnight.
He shrank so fast, he made a whirring sound. CHARMED LIFE
Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away. The Sun
Then sunlight. ashed on metal, and the sound became distinct, a clanking and whirring of giant bronze wings. Archive 2010-02-01
The car with its whirring air conditioning was like an oxygen mask.
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
The clock began to whirr before striking the hour.
Yet behind this relaxed, fun surface, deep within there is a serious streak whirring away. Times, Sunday Times
At 6am the garbage truck makes its way down the street, brakes grinding and compactor whirring.
It beeped and whirred to life, the hard-drive sounding its soft purr as it accessed the system files needed to rouse the little giant.
You can almost see the political and moral brain whirring. Times, Sunday Times
But then -'Then,' said Avery with the voice of experience,'the fan starts whirring. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
The six o'clock TV news was burbung quietly in the background, the volume down since the latest Voss manhunt item ended, but the VCR still whirring, Parlabane now obsessively recording every broadcast on the matter. Boiling a Frog
She typed in the details, and then a few seconds later, the printer started whirring at the other end of the desk.
A hum was heard from the machine as it powered up to do the task it was asked to do, followed by a soft whirring sound, as it digested the bike's current condition.
It could disappear into the whirring computers and multicolored flow charts of the economic miracle.
From the early hours of the morning on, police vans lined the streets and helicopters whirred overhead. As Internet Heaved With Traffic, London Crowds Posed Few Problems
From deep within the belly of the ship, a low whirring sound began, steadily gaining pitch and velocity.
I could hear the washing machine whirring in the kitchen.
In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
If you get closer you find that it is singing a murmuring song, full of clicks and whirring sounds, like a clock about to strike. Times, Sunday Times
Police vans lined the streets and helicopters whirred overhead. As Internet Heaved With Traffic, London Crowds Posed Few Problems
My strange - and remarkably lifelike - mental movie reel is still whirring as she stubs out her slim panatella and draws the story to a close.
Huge numbers, a system whirring away, that really helps our owners. Times, Sunday Times
And with every response young minds click and whirr, evaluating and digesting the information.
The days of Cotswold computers whirring and wheezing before coughing up a web page are well and truly over. Times, Sunday Times
On the dash a grasshopper recovered equilibrium and whirred toward parts unknown. Miracles, Inc.
Telephone and telegraph wires run through the trenches and even railroad tracks are laid so that small engines go whirring through the ditches like "dinky" locomotives in a coal mine. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
The whispers in the walls were sending me slowly crazy, and the constant whirring of my empty mind made me feel dizzy.
The whirring rattle of a diamondback poised to strike Maj.
I noticed something was amiss when I checked my email accounts and my mail software froze for a minute or so while the hard drive on my computer whirred.
The greatest single British contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich, and possibly the greatest British achievement of the past century, is known to us as Bletchley, the unprepossessing country house halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, where an eccentric team of mathematicians, musicians, and classicists broke what the Germans had with good reason believed to be the unbreakable codes of their Enigma machines, and in the process pretty well invented modern computing: the huge creaking and whirring "bombes" of Bletchley, running over endless patterns and permutations, were the forebears of your laptop. Box
Whirring flying-fish burst from under the bows and skimmed away across the wavelets.
I could almost hear the cogs whirring in her head.
'And the guards march past their colonel in chief, Cheryl Cole-née-Tweedy, in their sustainably sourced uniforms, the miniature wind turbines that replaced the busbies whirring gently in the breeze…' It doesn't bear thinking about. Lucy Mangan: What is it with Tories and royalty?
I can see distinctly the little stone cottages in the narrow wynds off South Street, which I was wont to visit; I can recall the whirr and rattle of the loom "ben the house," and picture to myself the grave elderly man who on my entrance would rise from the rickety machine in front of which he was seated, and, after refreshing himself with a pinch of snuff, adjust his horn-rimmed spectacles and stare, with a seriousness which to me was somewhat disquieting, at the little English boy who had found his way into his presence. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
And this time we leave the tape recorder whirring in the ‘haunted Jacobean bedroom’ for a full half hour.
Neither news source appears to have noted the faint whirring of gears issuing from the back of Clinton's titanium brain cover, or the slight tapping as her interocular heads-up display clacked out the instruction INITIATE EYE-WATERING SEQUENCE. Bill Barol: Mmm... That's Good Pathos!
And mourn, ye whirring paitrick brood -- [partridge] Robert Burns How To Know Him
But hold on, what's that whirring sound? Times, Sunday Times
The clicks and whirrs, the stuttered, granulated melodies, the use of found sound and field recordings find their way onto all nine of the acoustic guitar-centred tracks.
We have our talk in his office at the Treasury opposite St James's Park; an extra Treasury tape recorder whirring throughout.
She hear nothing but the chirps and whirr of insect.
The machine emitted a whirring sound, and a few calculated sounding thunks, and then began to run.
In a dark gallery, a whirring projector throws a beam of light onto a waiting screen. Times, Sunday Times
If you get closer you find that it is singing a murmuring song, full of clicks and whirring sounds, like a clock about to strike. Times, Sunday Times
The fan whirred in the corner of the room.
Then he lunges at me, with tweezers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, bottle openers and scissors all snipping, whirring and snapping at me in perfect synchronicity.
The sounds of machines whirring and bells ringing could be heard as far away as a city block.
If you get closer you find that it is singing a murmuring song, full of clicks and whirring sounds, like a clock about to strike. Times, Sunday Times
It was pitch dark everywhere, and the whirr of the ceiling fan seemed to fill the silent bedroom.
You can practically hear the cogs whirring inside the most restless mind in sport. Times, Sunday Times
The loud whirring sounds like a space ship taking off. The Sun
There seemed to be miles of dark labyrinthine passagesactually, I suppose, a few hundred yards in allthat reminded one queerly of the lower decks of a liner; there were the same heat and cramped space and warm reek of food, and a humming, whirring noise (it came from the kitchen furnaces) just like the whir of engines. Down and Out in Paris and London
The paitrick whirrin 'o'er the ley. [partridge, meadow] Robert Burns How To Know Him
Around them dappled sunlight, birdsong and the whirr of busy wings.
Imelda sat on at the table, her mind whirring with possible courses of action. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Two more shot up and followed them, their wings whirring. Times, Sunday Times
The loud whirring sounds like a space ship taking off. The Sun
But I can't stop my brain whirring away. The Sun
It was pitch dark everywhere, and the whirr of the ceiling fan seemed to fill the silent bedroom.
It was utterly still as his computer fan whirred with constant speed.
Her ears were filled with the whirr of insect wings, the growling of lions, the hiss and rattle of hot stones baking in the relentless Sun, the crunch of sand and parched Earth under her foot.
At a very human level, televisions flickered off and air-conditioning units stopped whirring in sweltering heat.
Other than that, the £25m building site at the Vauxhall End drowned out the noise of the cricket with whirrings and crashes, whizzes and bangs.
In Lyons, whirring machinery can debark a tree weighing more than a ton in seconds, spinning the woody cylinder into slick sheets of fiber that are transformed into plywood. Logging Towns Revive in Quake's Wake
Day in, day out our minds are whirring constantly with impulses, notions and urges of one sort or another in that intuitive process we call thinking. HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow. Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
Her subsequent silence was followed by a click and a whirr as the machine reset itself. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
You can practically hear the cogs whirring inside the most restless mind in sport. Times, Sunday Times
Singing helps the cyclist keep out the cold, and sets your pedals whirring to a rhythm. Times, Sunday Times
I sit on the bank and listen to the night birds, the whirr of mossies and the old ladies' soft murmurings.
Those who were decoyed into these staterooms endured them with disgust while the boat was at anchor; but when the paddle-wheels began to revolve, and dismal din of clang and bang and whirr came down about their ears, and threatened to unroof the fortress of the brain, why, then they fled madly, precipitately, leaving their clothes mostly behind them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
You could hear the whirr and hum of political calculation, the internal hedging of bets.
A cadenza-coda preserves the rocking thirds through whirring trills and clattering arpeggios.
You can almost see the political and moral brain whirring. Times, Sunday Times
However, the machines whirred on unmanned and unobserved; the staff were on holiday.
I was transfixed, squatting there by the machine, listening above the faint whirr of the engine. TESTIMONIES
But instead of feathers, this aerial escort has a mane of blonde hair and a whirring propeller on her back. Times, Sunday Times
Huge numbers, a system whirring away, that really helps our owners. Times, Sunday Times
But I can't stop my brain whirring away. The Sun
She heard the click and slight whirring sound as Raider snapped pictures of her.
The snap of a heavy switch, the whirr of tape, then the switch again. THE LAST RAVEN
They whirred, clicked, chirred and rattled till she dumped the whole teeming mass of them on the bed.
This got the cogs whirring. Times, Sunday Times
Their song, full of whirring sounds and whistles, is unmistakable. Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone in it seemed to stir into immediate life at cockcrow, and the farm then spun and whirred like a complicated bit of clockwork until after sunset, when one by one the cogs and wheels that made it run began to fall away, rolling off into the dark to seek supper and bed, only to reappear like magic in their proper places in the morning. Sick Cycle Carousel
Rumours of a soured relationship between the pair have kept the tabloid presses whirring. Times, Sunday Times
The next morning, I stumble downstairs to find the corporate machine whirring along with seamless organic synergy.
In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
I heard all sorts of mechanical whirrs and beeps.
She stands there tapping that thermometer against her wrist watch, eyes whirring while she tries to gauge this new man.
Their song, full of whirring sounds and whistles, is unmistakable. Times, Sunday Times
He wound the string through the eyehole and got it spinning on the pad of his finger, the rotor tumbling inside the whirring gimbals while the exterior remained fixed. DEVILS IN EXILE
The shop was noisy and busy even at this hour; a collator clattered, copiers whirred and clunked, phones rang, and somebody — Charlie? There's Something In A Sunday
The birds were active, whirring and fluttering among the trees.
I heard the beep and the whirr of some kind of machinery, but I couldn't see because my sight was focused on the ceiling.
Other than that, the £25m building site at the Vauxhall End drowned out the noise of the cricket with whirrings and crashes, whizzes and bangs.
Raven continued turning the crank and the machine clicked and whirred as all the planets compassed about the sun on their courses.
The music ended and the machines whirred back to life. Uprising
Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away. The Sun
AT 4.48 pm yesterday, on the eve of the biggest news event of the year, the fax machines in newspaper offices across the country whirred into life.
Cogs whirr, wires clunk and leering unpleasantness ensues as an ex-con breaks into a house which has been rigged up as a giant mantrap. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears. The War in the Air
The engine, cranky, rusty, out-of-practice, whirred to life. The entire vehicle began to shake, violently at first, then settling.
Against that faint but continuous background were other intermittent noises: the occasional "whirr" of hidden motors carrying out some mysterious and auto - matic task, the "tick," every thirty seconds precisely, of the electric clock, and sometimes the sound of water racing through the pressurised plumbing system. The Sands of Mars
The blipping and whirring of the machines in Matthew's converted bedroom tell me that he is still alive, that he is still in there somewhere inside of the blank exterior. Cougar
You turned it on but nothing is happening - blank screen, no whirring noise, no beeps, no flashing lights.
A lightning-fast, skilful and occasionally violent hurly-burly blur of whirring limbs and flailing, splintering timber in which all 30 players take to the field simultaneously armed with wooden clubs, hurling is not actually as dissimilar to cricket as you'd think. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
On the Tuesday following, Mr. Parker was just wrestling in prayer with his charlady, who had a tiresome habit of boiling his breakfast kippers till they resembled heavily pickled loofahs, when the telephone whirred aggressively. Unnatural Death
Then a whirring noise started up and a brush ran over my skin, allegedly to encourage the sloughing off of dead cells and to stimulate my circulation.
The box which makes a whirring noise next to me I bought second hand two years ago, and please don't add 'ality' to the end of words. Apple announces record profits of $6bn as Steve Jobs hails 'phenomenal' sales
It could disappear into the whirring computers and multicolored flow charts of the economic miracle.
Turn the thing on and a quietly whirring motor oscillates the variously shaped heads at a breakneck speed of 3,600 RPM, which feels pretty darned good.
Deep breath, hold it, whirr, click, move up an inch, breathe again.
He wound the string through the eyehole and got it spinning on the pad of his finger, the rotor tumbling inside the whirring gimbals while the exterior remained fixed. DEVILS IN EXILE
The familiar whirr of the tram, the particular clicking noise the indicators make when we pause at stops.
The digitisation neurosis of the early twenty-first century, the drive to create endlessly duplicable and available electronic copies of literary and artistic works (many of which, being made from wood pulp, are effective carbon sequestration devices) requires the constant whirring of hard drives, the persistent presence of electrically live bandwidth, and the consequent carbon on-costs. Forgetting, to live « Squares of Wheat
Two more shot up and followed them, their wings whirring. Times, Sunday Times
Raven spun the crank yet again, and they could hear more of the whirring sound.
The specialiser whirrs away and eventually outputs a description of a machine that is an interpreter that is dedicated to making that one particular coin. Planet Haskell
And so it was here; for as Bart sat munching there in the delicious restfulness of his position, with the soft warm breeze just playing through the leaves, the golden sunshine raining down amongst the leaves and branches in dazzling streams, while the pleasant whirr and hum of insects was mingled with the gentle _crop, crop, crop_ of Black Boy's teeth as he feasted on the succulent growth around, all tended to produce drowsiness, and in a short time he found himself nodding. The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains
This got the cogs whirring. Times, Sunday Times
But hold on, what's that whirring sound? Times, Sunday Times
Day in, day out our minds are whirring constantly with impulses, notions and urges of one sort or another in that intuitive process we call thinking. HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
They dub them mosquitoes because of the unique buzzing sound made by their whirring propellers. The Sun
The whirring and spinning of the laser mechanism within the donut gives the impression of being inside a washing machine.
First of all was heard a distant rumbling, with the "whirr" of the iron rope far back in the darkness. The Mines and its Wonders
whirr" went the chains, the heavy weight sank to the ground, and the clock stopped; and the poor mother rushed out of the house calling for her child. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Fitted with whirring wheels, gears and other devices, the old mechanical toys have acquired retro-cool status among many affluent young collectors.
The days of Cotswold computers whirring and wheezing before coughing up a web page are well and truly over. Times, Sunday Times
The sound was all spacious clicks and hums and whirrs, and you could hear echoes of in in the jerk music that replaced hyphy.
Mounted fans whirred overhead, efficiently distributing the rank air and grime into all corners.
Hung on the surrounding walls were several drawings of female nudes as well as photos with images that were difficult to discern; electric sanders, tucked in the corners, emitted a whizzing and whirring sound that filled the room.
They dub them mosquitoes because of the unique buzzing sound made by their whirring propellers. The Sun
He shrank so fast, he made a whirring sound. CHARMED LIFE
As whirring synths proffer the white noise a sense of foundation, bits of song begin to re-establish themselves before the band fully commits to reprising the chorus once more.
Between snatches it was not idle, sailing out to intercept a passing fly, then poising in the air with rapidly whirring wings as it neatly picked an insect from the underside of a leaf.
It was after three a.m. when the whirr of a single projector gave way to the roar of three projectors running simultaneously.
The loud whirring sounds like a space ship taking off. The Sun
Opening it, she listened; as the clock on the mantel had correctly foretold, the clock on the stairs whirred, then chimed. DEVIL'S BRIDE
But I can't stop my brain whirring away. The Sun
He shrank so fast, he made a whirring sound. CHARMED LIFE
The clock began to whirr before striking the hour.
Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away. The Sun
Next to me, Mr. Walker's camera whirred and clicked rapidly.
The door was sucked shut, the system hummed, clicked, whirred very oddly ... in a way the Criten had never heard an air-lock whirr ... and then the outer door popped loose. Project Armageddon, or The Beam O’Doom: Putting the Lid Where It Belongs « Unknowing
A box fan held open the window, whirring loudly as it directed the warm air from outside inward.
The whirrs and clicks of several computers filled the room, revealing that there was probably more in it than one would think.
All this life through which the electric car whirred seemed remote and unreal, and he would have experienced little interest and less shook if the great stone steeple of the church he passed had suddenly crumbled to mortar-dust upon his head. Chapter 40
But hold on, what's that whirring sound? Times, Sunday Times
I heard the whirr of the servants ' elevator and the crump of the door closing as she set off to join the coven. TIME OF THE WOLF
Rumours of a soured relationship between the pair have kept the tabloid presses whirring. Times, Sunday Times
Then it struck Desmond that the line was dead: his ear detected none of that busy whirr which is heard in the telephone when one is waiting to get a number. Okewood of the Secret Service
It was not unlike the "whirr" of machinery, save that it rose and fell in distinct cadences, and occasionally -- as if by preconcerted arrangement on the part of every individual insect in the district -- stopped altogether for a few moments. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
The clock dials overlap one another, making for a very pretty, three-dimensional whirring cog effect.
He watched the blackstaffer as he began to pump the foot pedal, but she did not stir, despite the whirring of the planer when he guided the first red oak shook into position to rough-shape it into a stave. Wellspring of Chaos
Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
Cameras from all sides pointed at me, whirring mechanically as they changed their angles of attack.
-4.5* In Paris, the coding machine in the intelligence section of the Soviet Embassy started whirring. CONFESSIONAL
Rejoice, ye birring paitricks a '; [whirring partridges] Robert Burns How To Know Him
What London 2012 wants is a great whirring delivery machine, driven by the inexorability of the project's deadline, where as many details as possible are determined in advance by specifications and regulations. Olympics Aquatic Centre – review
While kicking around some rustingly odd blogging machinery, one of the little whirrrrrs began; followed by quirkly-strange gauge movements --- apparently some others had been scampering around this place and dropped a priorly unnoticed story or 2. Archive 2005-06-01
The orb seemed to dilate and constrict, making a slight whirring noise as it did so. Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
In addition, a number of people claimed to have seen this mysterious airship at close range, hearing its whirring engines and observing its cigar-shaped gasbag and dazzling searchlight. The phantom airships of 1909
Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away. The Sun
He pressed a few buttons, bleeps and toots sounding in the room along with the soft whirr of the air conditioner.
Day in, day out our minds are whirring constantly with impulses, notions and urges of one sort or another in that intuitive process we call thinking. HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
Huge numbers, a system whirring away, that really helps our owners. Times, Sunday Times
He whirred from his seat like a surprised partridge beaten from a covert.
The carbon echoes and amplifies the whirring sound from the electric motors. Times, Sunday Times
Mechanical power still held sway, power transmitted through gears and belts, power that clacked and whirred, hammered and hissed.
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The images were projected on a white cotton sheet, and the loud whirr of the generator muffled the sound.
Watch'd for the whizzing shafts, and jav'lins 'whirr. The Iliad
Our only company was a dipper that dived into the middle of the flow, surfaced after about ten seconds, whirred for a skimming white flashing 20 or 50 yards up river and then dived again.
Even as his left arm poured water on his foes, his right arm whirred with diamond-tipped drills. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
They dub them mosquitoes because of the unique buzzing sound made by their whirring propellers. The Sun
Will gave a light two fingered salute to those staying, as the rotors whirred and the chopper left.
The reassuring sound of a milk float whirring by outside your window in the early morning is now a rarity.
I need to be able to putter and poke at things and get up and wander around and let my brain whirr on the hamster wheel rather than attempting to be disciplined and productive. I can make it longer if you like the style

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