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 he’d been a cat, he would have purred, he was that glad to see me.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

If I was a cat, I would have purred.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

Had he been so wounded, he could have purred contentedly while accepting the genuine hero’s meed of homage and consolation.

From The Rough Road by Locke, William John

As he stretched his legs to meet the genial heat and sank lower in his chair he could have purred in his thankfulness.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.