Pur

"Pur" in a Sentence (6 examples)

He is eating sausage with puréed potatoes.

She gathered up some of the fallen apples to cook up a purée.

Pie pumpkins are made into a purée and used for pumpkin pie.

The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.

a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.

It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur.

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