Whir is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WHIR in dictionary:

VERB:
• to spin with a humming noise, also WHIRR
• (of something rapidly rotating or moving to and fro) make a low, continuous, regular sound
• To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz.
• To hurry a long with a whizzing sound.
• make a soft swishing sound
• make or cause to make a whir
NOUN:
• a whirring sound
• prolonged soft swish or buzz
• A buzzing or whizzing sound produced by rapid or whirling motion; as, the whir of a partridge; the whir of a spinning wheel.
• sound of something in rapid motion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move with a buzzing sound

Words related to WHIR

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Words that contain WHIR

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How to use WHIR in a sentence

• Here indeed were whistle and roar and whir, and the shout of laborers, and the smell of smoke, sweat, dust, and wheat.
• There was a sort of whir and blur, and he was no longer with us.
• Up they whir and rattle, making, like most game, more noise than they are worth.
• Grimm heard the grind and whir of an automobile a block or so away, coming toward the embassy.
• Occasionally somewhere overhead in the great buildings sounded the whir of a lift, a footstep, the throwing up of a window.
• And once dawn was breaking as he descended, and the whir of wings aroused him.
• One moment everything seemed devoid of life, the next there was an unexpected whir, buzz, and sharp cry.
• Boom! Boom! came the distant, sullen thunder, followed by the unmistakable whir of a Parrott shell.
• The air, now hushed and still, was riven every few minutes by the whir of wings as ducks in evening flight swept by above.
• But for the soft whir of wings there was no sound in the room.
• And the little green car shot off with a whir as I turned to enter my new world of loneliness.
• Somewhere in the distance he heard the whir of a late trolley.
• He could hear the distant whir of another trolley, and he determined to take it, no matter which way it was going.
• Do not think that nothing is happening because you do not see yourself grow, or hear the whir of the machinery.
• A whir of wings in the air above her head awakened Varta.
• From a black opaque object it began to turn a dull red and to diffuse a subdued glow, while the hum turned into a distinct whir.
• Chapter XVII A Summer Noon The stir of the morning has given place to a silence broken only by the shrill whir of the locust.
• The whir of the locust high overhead, by some earlier association, always recalls that matchless singer, some of whose notes Nature has never regained in all these later years.
• Then, with a whir and a mighty lurch as the clutch went in, the automobile started forward in the road.
• Up they rose with cry and clamor, With a whir and beat of pinions, Rose up from the reedy Islands, From the water-flags and lilies.
• Up in their seat, a whir of the motor, and they are off on another adventure.
• He did not know just how long he sat by his bedside trying to think, only to have his conclusions whir away like a flock of startled birds when he approached them.
• The two knives sped simultaneously with a vicious whir, and stood quivering, with their blades touching each other, in the centre of the white.
• As his hand reached the top of the stump, there was a sudden startling whir of wings and something shot upward into the dark.
• Spin, sing with humming whir, the wheel goes round and round.
• Sing! Spin! With hum and whir The wheel goes round and round.
• There were more wheels, and their whir seemed never out of ear-shot.
• I long to be in the hum and whir of the busy workroom.

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