Example Sentences

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In a gleaming laboratory in Edinburgh, robotic machines whirr and mix.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

Zhang occasionally tosses in a distant whirr like the kind you hear in sci-fi films denoting an approaching UFO.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2024

Critics argue that the whirr of chopper blades is drowning out the sound of birds, bubbling lava and babbling brooks.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

At an unfinished Country Garden residential complex on the outskirts of the northern Chinese metropolis of Tianjin, construction has slowed to a dull whirr and a few idle workers roam a near-empty site.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2023

I heard the whirr of the central heating.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd