How To Use Whirring In A Sentence
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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
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It is snapping and whirring, emitting a high-pitched tome like the mewling of a cat.
Death's Noisy Herald
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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
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You can practically hear the cogs whirring inside the most restless mind in sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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I could feel his mind whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to the dictionary, birred means: “To make or move with a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.”
I HEART BACON
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There was a whirring sound, then the clock's chime marked a quarter to midnight.
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He shrank so fast, he made a whirring sound.
CHARMED LIFE
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Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away.
The Sun
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Then sunlight. ashed on metal, and the sound became distinct, a clanking and whirring of giant bronze wings.
Archive 2010-02-01
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The car with its whirring air conditioning was like an oxygen mask.
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Yet behind this relaxed, fun surface, deep within there is a serious streak whirring away.
Times, Sunday Times
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At 6am the garbage truck makes its way down the street, brakes grinding and compactor whirring.
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You can almost see the political and moral brain whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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But then -'Then,' said Avery with the voice of experience,'the fan starts whirring.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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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
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She typed in the details, and then a few seconds later, the printer started whirring at the other end of the desk.
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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.
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It could disappear into the whirring computers and multicolored flow charts of the economic miracle.
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From deep within the belly of the ship, a low whirring sound began, steadily gaining pitch and velocity.
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I could hear the washing machine whirring in the kitchen.
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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
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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.
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Huge numbers, a system whirring away, that really helps our owners.
Times, Sunday Times
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The days of Cotswold computers whirring and wheezing before coughing up a web page are well and truly over.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The whispers in the walls were sending me slowly crazy, and the constant whirring of my empty mind made me feel dizzy.
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The whirring rattle of a diamondback poised to strike Maj.
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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
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Whirring flying-fish burst from under the bows and skimmed away across the wavelets.
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I could almost hear the cogs whirring in her head.
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'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?
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And this time we leave the tape recorder whirring in the ‘haunted Jacobean bedroom’ for a full half hour.
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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!
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And mourn, ye whirring paitrick brood -- [partridge]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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But hold on, what's that whirring sound?
Times, Sunday Times
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We have our talk in his office at the Treasury opposite St James's Park; an extra Treasury tape recorder whirring throughout.
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The machine emitted a whirring sound, and a few calculated sounding thunks, and then began to run.
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In a dark gallery, a whirring projector throws a beam of light onto a waiting screen.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Then he lunges at me, with tweezers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, bottle openers and scissors all snipping, whirring and snapping at me in perfect synchronicity.
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The sounds of machines whirring and bells ringing could be heard as far away as a city block.
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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
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You can practically hear the cogs whirring inside the most restless mind in sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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The loud whirring sounds like a space ship taking off.
The Sun
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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
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Imelda sat on at the table, her mind whirring with possible courses of action.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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Two more shot up and followed them, their wings whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The loud whirring sounds like a space ship taking off.
The Sun
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But I can't stop my brain whirring away.
The Sun
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At a very human level, televisions flickered off and air-conditioning units stopped whirring in sweltering heat.
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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.
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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
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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
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You can practically hear the cogs whirring inside the most restless mind in sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Singing helps the cyclist keep out the cold, and sets your pedals whirring to a rhythm.
Times, Sunday Times
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A cadenza-coda preserves the rocking thirds through whirring trills and clattering arpeggios.
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You can almost see the political and moral brain whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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But instead of feathers, this aerial escort has a mane of blonde hair and a whirring propeller on her back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Huge numbers, a system whirring away, that really helps our owners.
Times, Sunday Times
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But I can't stop my brain whirring away.
The Sun
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She heard the click and slight whirring sound as Raider snapped pictures of her.
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This got the cogs whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their song, full of whirring sounds and whistles, is unmistakable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rumours of a soured relationship between the pair have kept the tabloid presses whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The next morning, I stumble downstairs to find the corporate machine whirring along with seamless organic synergy.
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She stands there tapping that thermometer against her wrist watch, eyes whirring while she tries to gauge this new man.
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Their song, full of whirring sounds and whistles, is unmistakable.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The birds were active, whirring and fluttering among the trees.
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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.
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Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away.
The Sun
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A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.
The War in the Air
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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
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You turned it on but nothing is happening - blank screen, no whirring noise, no beeps, no flashing lights.
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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
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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.
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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
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It could disappear into the whirring computers and multicolored flow charts of the economic miracle.
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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.
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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
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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
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Two more shot up and followed them, their wings whirring.
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Raven spun the crank yet again, and they could hear more of the whirring sound.
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This got the cogs whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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But hold on, what's that whirring sound?
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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They dub them mosquitoes because of the unique buzzing sound made by their whirring propellers.
The Sun
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The whirring and spinning of the laser mechanism within the donut gives the impression of being inside a washing machine.
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Fitted with whirring wheels, gears and other devices, the old mechanical toys have acquired retro-cool status among many affluent young collectors.
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The days of Cotswold computers whirring and wheezing before coughing up a web page are well and truly over.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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They dub them mosquitoes because of the unique buzzing sound made by their whirring propellers.
The Sun
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He shrank so fast, he made a whirring sound.
CHARMED LIFE
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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.
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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.
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The loud whirring sounds like a space ship taking off.
The Sun
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But I can't stop my brain whirring away.
The Sun
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He shrank so fast, he made a whirring sound.
CHARMED LIFE
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Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away.
The Sun
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A box fan held open the window, whirring loudly as it directed the warm air from outside inward.
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But hold on, what's that whirring sound?
Times, Sunday Times
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Rumours of a soured relationship between the pair have kept the tabloid presses whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clock dials overlap one another, making for a very pretty, three-dimensional whirring cog effect.
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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
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Cameras from all sides pointed at me, whirring mechanically as they changed their angles of attack.
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-4.5* In Paris, the coding machine in the intelligence section of the Soviet Embassy started whirring.
CONFESSIONAL
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Rejoice, ye birring paitricks a '; [whirring partridges]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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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
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The orb seemed to dilate and constrict, making a slight whirring noise as it did so.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
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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
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Behind the scenes, the washing machine or the dryer is always whirring away.
The Sun
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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
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Huge numbers, a system whirring away, that really helps our owners.
Times, Sunday Times
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The carbon echoes and amplifies the whirring sound from the electric motors.
Times, Sunday Times
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They dub them mosquitoes because of the unique buzzing sound made by their whirring propellers.
The Sun
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The reassuring sound of a milk float whirring by outside your window in the early morning is now a rarity.
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The phones are constantly ringing, and the fax is whirring plus there's a huge pile of shredding to be done.
RESCUING ROSE
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Their song, full of whirring sounds and whistles, is unmistakable.
Times, Sunday Times
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As you can probably tell by the loud buzzing and whirring sounds your computer makes when you turn it on, the boot-up process puts a lot of strain on your system.
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All of the moving parts are fully enclosed so you have got no chance of sprockets or drive shafts whirring around or anything like that.
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This sound was the generator whirring to life once again.
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The tiny voice was almost lost in the roar of the helicopter's engine and the rhythmic whirring of the overhead rotors.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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Suddenly, a loud whirring sound buzzed by his left window.
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I could feel his mind whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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(The Greeks, who are the ultimate source of the loanword ‘partridge,’ presumably gave it this name because of the loud whirring sound it makes when suddenly flushed out.)
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Fitted with whirring wheels, gears and other devices, the old mechanical toys have acquired retro-cool status among many affluent young collectors.
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There were so many machines and servers whirring away in the background I may as well have stayed at my desk.
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Their general mode of flight (referred to as ‘whirring’ flight) is more similar to alcids than to other petrels.
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This got the cogs whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sounds have been described as drumming, rattling or whirring.
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You can almost see the political and moral brain whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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I could feel his mind whirring.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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In this fiefdom he was able to pursue his own projects, and soon the whirring of robots could be heard across the lino floors of the cybernetics department.
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Yet behind this relaxed, fun surface, deep within there is a serious streak whirring away.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Protesters moved in groups of 40 to 50 amid whirring sirens and beating drums.
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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
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If you have never heard the lilting song of the linnet, spotted the distinctive plumage of a goldcrest, or waited for the whirring wings of a grey partridge, it is increasingly unlikely that you ever will.
Europe's farmland birds on decline
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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
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Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one entered the darkened gallery from the street.
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Yet behind this relaxed, fun surface, deep within there is a serious streak whirring away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her fingers were light and gentle upon the keys, and the machine responded by whirring into action.
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The car with its whirring air conditioning was like an oxygen mask.
