has whirred
- present perfect of whir (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Yet away from the cameras, precious few glimpses have been offered behind the big black door of Number 10, where a well-oiled machine has whirred in motion.
From BBC ● May 17, 2010
Ford had a streamlined "Lead Wedge" that has whirred across Utah's salt flats at 138 m.p.h.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over emergent roofs A sound of pattering hoofs And anxious bleatings tells the passing herd: Scared by the piteous droves, A shoal of skurrying doves, Veering, around the island of the church has whirred.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various
