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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
whirr .
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Examples
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From the early hours of the morning on, police vans lined the streets and helicopters whirred overhead.
As Internet Heaved With Traffic, London Crowds Posed Few Problems Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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As I listened my mind whirred into action, trying to think of what I could do help her out.
Marianne Elliott: Zen of Giving and Receiving: a Buddhist Take on Effective aid Marianne Elliott 2011
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In one hut he roomed with a resident tarantula and things that "sang, copulated, stank, ate each other, whirred, preened, and glowed."
From Guyana to Guiana Wayne Curtis 2011
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Police vans lined the streets and helicopters whirred overhead.
As Internet Heaved With Traffic, London Crowds Posed Few Problems Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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The door was sucked shut, the system hummed, clicked, whirred very oddly ... in a way the Criten had never heard an air-lock whirr ... and then the outer door popped loose.
Project Armageddon, or The Beam O’Doom: Putting the Lid Where It Belongs « Unknowing 2010
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A tiny pebble whirred past with the force almost of a bullet.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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Even as his left arm poured water on his foes, his right arm whirred with diamond-tipped drills.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The music ended and the machines whirred back to life.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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On the dash a grasshopper recovered equilibrium and whirred toward parts unknown.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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All this life through which the electric car whirred seemed remote and unreal, and he would have experienced little interest and less shook if the great stone steeple of the church he passed had suddenly crumbled to mortar-dust upon his head.
Chapter 40 2010
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