He vanished in the darkness, and though it seemed ages to the aching Superintendent, it was barely three minutes before the shadowy, whirring body of a War Office hydroplane hovered over him.
The long streets rolled behind us, and were lost in the rain; then with a rhythmic drumming of hoofs and a constant splashing from under the whirring wheels, we swept out into the blackness of a treeless plain.
So with a rhythmic beat of whirring wheels, and now and again a clash of couplings as we slid down some hollow of the track, we rolled on through the night, while the scream of wind grew louder outside the rattling cars.
His whirring wings not only produce the roar which accompanies his flight, but they are also responsible for the "drumming" which constitutes the Grouse's song as sitting upright on some favorite log, he rapidly beats the air with his wings.
It runs gracefully before one, and when flushed rises with a whirring flight but soon alights, usually on the ground.
Then the whirring of the propellers began again, first loud and coming from near, from right above our heads, then softer and softer until the immense ship of the air had entirely disappeared from our view and hearing.
Suddenly the soldiers would hear above their heads the whirring of the propellers and the noise of the motors, well-known to most Germans.
The whirring of the propellers of the airships which had been distributed for work on the various forts suddenly ceased.
He purred louder and louder, like a spinning wheel--the wheel was whirring in her own head.
Somewhere out yonder a bat was whirring through the darkness, uttering its timid and infinitely lonely cry.
Upon my wide and ample breast, The white-winged boats go hurrying by; And on my banks the whirring wheels Of busy mills hum ceaselessly.
We heard, indeed, a whirring and revolving noise--and then suddenly Girzie swearing through the mist.
Frequent flashes of fire, and a whirring as of the wings of birds--but sound and sight alike uncertain--break again upon our dream.
Occasionally we heard the scream of a hawk, or the whirring of great wings above our heads; but, for the most part, we tramped on in perfect silence.
The constant whirring of the wheels, and the general breezy look of things, distinguish this place from all others that I have seen.
The place rang and echoed, long after the hours of the ordinary working man's working day, with the clinking and whirring and hammering of those labours that went to bring forth these great wings of War.
Again thewhirring and the chinking and the other forge-like noises would fill the place.
The voice ceased, the whirring of the instrument came to an end, and an invisible spirit seemed to fade into the air.
Even then, she could only follow the strange voice in passages, which were broken and submerged by the whirring of the phonograph, like the flight of a sea-bird which dips at intervals and leaves nothing but the wash of the waves.
The whirring noise began again, and after a moment the clear voice came as before: "My son, the promise I made when we parted in London I fulfilled faithfully, but the letter I wrote you never came to your hands.
From the street outside came the whirring of a motor and the sound of Mary Rochefort's voice saying good-by to Pollen.
Again he tried, and this time it seemed to move a little; and as it did so Frobisher thought he caught a slight grinding, whirring sound, like rusty machinery reluctantly moving.
There are the hippogriffs, dancing and whirling in the far sunlight, coming to earth with whirring flight, bathing in the pure dawn, one to be caught with a magic halter, to carry its rider past the Under Pits to the City of Never.
The creature put its forelegs and head fairly into the whirring circle!
I have him," I said by way of assurance, and Ben realised that the whirring scream of the winch was not a mere private rehearsal.
Next I moved in to above the knees, and pulled out a little more line; was looking up at the snow patches on the mountain tops, and the fir trees on the slope, when I was startled by a rude pluck and a whirring of the little reel.
They had just obeyed her summons when a Parrott shell came whirring in at the entrance and fell in the centre of the cave before them all, lying there smoking.
Opening her lips she was about to reply when the unmistakable whirring of a shell told her that the battery which they feared the most had turned their guns upon their hill.
A clicking and a whirring had begun to occur close to his ear, and something darted like a gadfly at his scalp.
A motor-car seemed to have stopped in the road close by; its whirring and whizzing was clearly audible, mingled with the cooings of pigeons and a robin's song.
The whirring of the javelin stays within his shouting mouth.
But when afar Juturna knew the Dread One's whirring wings, The hapless sister tears her hair and loose its tresses flings, 870 Fouling her face with tearing nails, her breast with beat of hand.
The air above the deep-blue water was dancing with heat, and flights of whirring cormorants and duck gave it life.
Round its neck was a big projecting ring, which made a whirring noise.
The time will come when along every stream there will be heard the buzzing of saws, the whirring of mill-stones, and the click and clatter of machinery.
Away down in Kastamuni the people awakened out of their sleep by the alarm, heard a soft whirring high up in the sky, and then the strains of "Destiny Waltz" came floating down to their astonished ears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whirring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: booming; droning; hum; humming; purring; thrumming
