(1) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
(2) The mind whirrs away, and soon enough the demystification begins.
(3) The peculiar percussion in the song's middle-eight – helicopter blade whirrs, and a distant shouting army – sound especially fierce against Michael Stipe's distant, spoken-word testimony.
(4) A policewoman hops to the side, to avoid blocking our shot, and there's a chorus of clicks, whirrs and focus beeps.
(5) Then West Ham took over, their running, passing and imagination making the visitors look like mere bouncers amid a whirr of party people.
(6) Once the wheels began to whirr on Manchester United’s move for Radamel Falcao, with Welbeck told he could leave Old Trafford, the route south became a serious option.
(7) With that news still forthcoming, the rumour mill continues to whirr, particularly after Abrams confirmed that he'd had meetings with Jesse Plemons, the American actor known for roles in TV dramas Breaking Bad and Friday Night Lights.
(8) Part of the problem, I suspect, is that few of us doubt the behavioural or environmental threats of technology; our endless distractibility, the constant beeps and whirrs and notifications of modern life.
(9) Wembley itself was ringed with extra security for the occasion from the whirr of the helicopters parked against the clouds hours before kick-off, to the presence on the usually carefree Wembley Way of knots of armed policemen in bulky protective vests, automatic weapons strapped to their chests.
(10) "The population of Mogadishu is regaining confidence," he says as the air conditioner whirrs, dripping water on to sandbags outside his prefab office.
(11) But then, with a spiral, pulsing flutter, it grew to a hissing whirr, landing with ferocious blasts, with tremendous thumps and then their echoes, followed by the whine of fragments which cut into the trees, driving white scars in their trunks and filling the air with torn shreds of foliage.
(12) In a small-space game the Welshman was a whirr of pace and dribbling as the ball stuck to that famous left boot before up went his arms in mock-jubilation to tease the team-mates who could not dispossess him.
(13) Koeman was irritable about that; the time-wasting, which he felt the officials could have done more to stamp out; the disallowed goal; the result and the whirr of transfer speculation which tracked both Mané and Victor Wanyama into the game.
Whizz
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Crucially, according to IBM whizz David Gondek, Watson has the ability to learn, and so engineers have been feeding it with tens of thousands of books' worth of information.
(2) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
(4) The charity said it wanted to roll back the trend whereby councils made cuts in frontline services to balance squeezed budgets – and the care industry, which employs a million workers, sent staff whizzing between the homes of vulnerable people's houses in shifts as short as 15 minutes.
(5) While shopping centres, stations, airports and many other places are generally private land, whizzing around on a hoverboard requires the permission of the landowner.
(6) The Bay Area UASI helped to fund Urban Shield this year, and the DHS even has its own stall in the vendors’ show where it is showing off the latest whizz-bang tools created by its science and technology directorate.
(7) Volleys of bullets from the rebels' Kalashnikovs whizzed mostly towards army positions, but some flew down the boulevard and prompted those who had crept too close to throw themselves against walls and to the floor.
(8) A PR whizz, Palikot looks to have eaten away at support for the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which won only about 8.2% of the vote.
(9) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
(10) "Month on month, we are losing whizzes who'll basically say, 'I'm sorry, I am going to take three times the salary and the car and whatever else.'"
(11) Well, that's the nature of the medium; as it whizzes past the eyes it seems very relevant but the malady of reality TV stars is that their shelf life expires, like dog years, by the power of seven.
(12) But a whizz around the BBC website reveals a story posted just five days before the Panorama broadcast, explaining the possibilities of tourism to North Korea.
(13) He believes that the private ownership of Global, headed by former Capital whizz kid Ashley Tabor and backed by money from the Irish racing magnates JP McManus and John Magnier, will allow more space for clarity of thought.
(14) It whizzed just wide, as did a thunderous 25-yard drive from Cissé two minutes later.
(15) Toure has a shot from distance that whizzes past the post.
(16) "Mountain bikes whizzing in and out of trees, jumping ramps above horses' heads, around an established sunken horse track, is an accident waiting to happen."
(17) The two men crossed two more streets with bullets whizzing around them before they met up with the rest of their men, a dozen soldiers who were taking cover from a regime tank.
(18) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
(19) One witness, Ibrahim Ghaleb Mohammad al-Sawary, the son of one of the factory directors, told the investigation he heard “whizzing followed by a very loud explosion”.
(20) They chanted “Hands up, don’t shoot!” as shoppers whizzed past in search of heavily-discounted TVs and vacuum cleaners.