were whirring
- past progressive of whir.
Example Sentences
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"The revolving doors that helped the team dissolve into nothing were whirring around ferociously."
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
Neurons were whirring: it was time to paint.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
It mattered not whether the cameras were whirring.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2012
Messrs. Walker, Ickes and Hopkins solemnly protested that they were whirring together like clockwork, but their grating, grinding, creeping progress gave them away.
From Time Magazine Archive
The morning that Lilly returned to the office electric lights were burning and electric fans were whirring into it.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
