The airplane's engines whirred.
Source: tatoeba (12106508)
Whirred
/wɜːd/
Synonyms for "whirred" (5 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
5 entriesMore specific
4 entriesengine whirrfan whirrserver whirrturbine whirr
Collocations
6 entriesengine whirrfan whirrlow whirrmachinery whirrsoft whirrsteady whirr
Inflections
2 entriesDerivations
2 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Propellers whirred on the slim airplane's long wings as Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg set out to make history by flying a solar-powered airplane through day and night, without fuel.
Source: tatoeba (12162555)