purr
verb (used without object)
to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
have purred
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present perfectof purr.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His modest, earnest accents have purred out over eager women's club audiences, Daughters of the British Empire, gatherings of journalists and at various hours and wave lengths of radio.
From Time Magazine Archive
If I was a cat, I would have purred.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
If he’d been a cat, he would have purred, he was that glad to see me.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
If I had been a cat, I should have purred.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
He rubbed his hands softly and turned his eyes with a glance meant to be tender towards the place where her chair stood; if he had been a cat, he would have purred the while.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
