Example Sentences
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Purrs, which are low-frequency and highly consistent, act as dependable identity signals that help cats and humans recognize familiar individuals in close social settings.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
Purrs Conservative William F. Buckley, a personal friend but philosophical foe: "Econo mists I know say everything he writes on economics is either platitudinous or wrong—or both."
From Time Magazine Archive
Purrs Trish: "We are trying to do Beauty as a mature love story."
From Time Magazine Archive
Abuherrira's Cat, too, here, Purrs round his master blest, For holy must the beast appear The Prophet hath caress'd.
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred
My merry fire Sings cheerfully to itself; my musing cat Purrs as she wakes from her unquiet sleep, And looks into my face as if she felt Like me the gentle influence of the rain.
From Fugitive Poetry by Willis, Nathaniel Parker
