Crossword-Solution: WHIRRING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Whirring | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Whir |
We have 10 clues for the answer “WHIRRING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pinwheel's noisy action | 1 answer |
| aroar | 21 answers |
| Hopping ___ | 29 answers |
| hustling | 29 answers |
| populous | 30 answers |
| ABUZZ | 35 answers |
| murmuring | 38 answers |
| droning | 39 answers |
| Humming | 41 answers |
| Enthusiastic | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHIRRING (5)
Presently, however, there came to my ears the whirring of the propellers of a flier, and as each moment the sound grew fainter I realized that the party had proceeded toward the south without assuring themselves as to my fate.
Gay farewells and parting admonitions mingled with the whirring of motors and the subdued noises of the city.
The lapping of the waves against the ship’s sides, the whirring of the propeller, the throbbing of the engines, drowned the almost soundless approach of the two.
Occasionally a cable car passed, trundling heavily, with a strident whirring of jostled glass windows.
His first act was to take down the alarm clock and stifle its prolonged whirring under the pillows and blankets.
Quotes with WHIRRING (3)
It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in…
Neither the secret whirring song of the stars nor the sonorous canticles of the earth knew the language that sprang up in the space between us. It was a dialect of heartbeats, strung together with the lilt of long suffering and the incandescent hope of an infinite future.
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).