How to pronounce“whir”in English
nounyou know, I never thought to define it before, but what wonder is is something that snaps you into presence. You know, it's something that like takes you out
of the kind of whir and sputter of the day-to-day um and moves you. Where you have learned something about your present because it just matched up with
something, paired with something in the past, like, oh, in learning this thing about Dwight D. Eisenhower, I've actually learned something about my dad,
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Definitions of “whir”
Alternative spelling of whirr.
“Suddenly, the time-keeper struck three bells, and the deeper notes of the bell forrard, answered them. I gave a start. It seemed to me that they had been struck close to my elbow. There was something unaccountably strange in the air that night. Then, even as the Second Mate answered the look-out's "All's well," there came the sharp whir and rattle of running gear, on the port side of the mainmast.”
Alternative spelling of whirr.
“She said: " We're not wasting time. While the cogs of Parliament continue to whir, we will continue to work on the rolling stock and infrastructure strategy, the national transport integrated strategy, and our accessibility roadmap.”
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