Arrows and darts whirred into their midst from the Saracen rear, and many fell, pierced in throat or face.
Then at last Al-hatif swung up, and a deadly flight of darts and javelins whirred into the dense mass of the Saxons.
Up whirred four birds out of a patch of gorse behind the dog, all presenting most beautiful shots.
Then the sheet whirred through the quarter-blocks as the great sail swung over, and the Sorata rolled until one side of her was deep in the foam.
The breeze freshened steadily, until she put her forecastle under and hove her stern out at every plunge, while her propeller shook her in every plate as it whirred in empty air.
He slept soundly, and did not hear the roar of the engines below him when the Adelaide flung her stern out and the lifted screw whirred madly in the air.
Then, like a ghostly hand out of the black beyond, something whirred past Barry's face, touched the skin lightly in passing, and thudded into the bellying mainsail.
In the meanwhile the surfboat had been busy, too; and when the winch whirredagain they slid away, stern foremost, with propeller churning slowly, against the muddy stream.
The rattle forward died away, and though the winch still whirred and hammered, none of the wire rope ran over the drum into the crouching Spaniard's hands.
Two days later, early in the morning, two Austrian aeroplanes whirred over the River Save and circled over Krupanie, Shabatz and Valievo.
The marches were made at night, to hide the movement as long as possible from the Austrian aeroplanes, which occasionally whirred their flight over Serbian territory.
Then he walked to his chambers along the echoing streets and sat at his window; and some time afterwards the hoot of a motor-horn broke the silence and a car stopped and whirred in the street below.
But before he had changed his clothes a great touring motor-car whirredand stopped in front of the door.
The fire danced, and the tea kettle sang, and the spinning wheel whirred merrily.
Then they read aloud, while Mistress Endicott's wheel whirred on.
Something like a beskirted cyclonewhirred into the circle.
She greeted him joyously, and then leaving him with her latest magazine, whirredoff again to some mysterious final crisis in the kitchen.
As fast as the camouflage could be "woven" and put in place to shield them from observance by the enemy planes that whirred overhead in the bright afternoons, the gun pits were dug.
Purple butterflies flashed unconcernedly in the greenish light over their heads; the blood-red kanikanik wands nodded; locusts whirred and hurled themselves strongly against the sweating bodies of the combatants.
The file squeaked and chattered and whirred and moaned, and finally the pale instruction panel lighted up: No Information.
Jeff rechecked the coding, punched the buttons which would relay through the cards alphabetically; then he waited as the machinerywhirred briefly.
And something whirreddown into the gloom, and struck the ground lightly.
At the same instant, the crust broke in several places, and up came the grouse one after another, and whirred off out of sight, without giving me any sort of a chance.
As I stepped forward to gather what I had killed, the rest whirred away into the woods.
They whirred up, brushing the branches, and the fox trotted away.
She saw her first bird--big blue grouse that whirred up from under her horse, and little checkered gray quail that appeared awkward on the wing.
The mechanism of the radio telescope whirred into life as he spoke and its disk shone bright with the reflected light of Titan as it pictured the body.
A vast black something whirred out from beyond the treetops and flung itself upon them.
A bell whirredand she came back to the table where we were sitting.
There was a continual murmur of insects and flashes of rainbow-colored light as the tiny, brilliant humming birds whirred among the flowers.
Gray church towers embowered in trees broke the vast monotony, and I surrendered myself to a happy dream of Juanita, while Arthur and Pat talked shooting and marked covies that rose on either side as we whirred by.
The clock in the kitchen whirred and rang out the hour of twelve, and Hiram stopped in his walk to count the strokes.
Suddenly a crimson-throated humming-bird whirred past, hung vibrating before a flowering creeper, then darted away.
A mallard drake, in frantic flight, whirred past, fifteen or twenty feet above his head, making for the water.
The partridge-coveys whirred on strong wing across the glowing corridors of the forest, under a sky of sharp cobalt.
It whipped around steadily, gaining speed until it whirredinto an invisible copper haze.
Twin dynamoswhirred and the walls were laced with pipes.
It gained speed until it whirred into an invisible copper haze between them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whirred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
