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whirred

verb as in rotate

verb as in rustle

verb as in whirl

verb as in whiz

verb as in buzz

verb as in drone

verb as in hum

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Example Sentences

Cameras whirred and clicked, but the room was otherwise silent.

Cameras snapped and whirred, yet he was hidden in plain sight.

Wheel-spokes whirred in the air and he saw a buggy, with the top down, rattling down another street in a cloud of dust.

At length the car whirred up the last hill, and stopped in front of the darkened house where she was to sleep.

It gained speed until it whirred into an invisible copper haze between them.

It whipped around steadily, gaining speed until it whirred into an invisible copper haze.

With that idea she grazed the shallows of reality, and her dreams whirred from the nest and left it hungrily empty.

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On this page you'll find 214 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to whirred, such as: bombinate, boom, cannonade, drum, echo, and growl.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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