Example sentences for: purring

How can you use “purring” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's easy enough to go along with, too, especially with Anjelica Huston's voice purring in your ear (audiotapes have replaced wall panels for this show) about how Léger was peerless in portraying the feel of the modern city.

  • It's odd to watch a woman who named her daughter for the notorious Hollywood rule-breaker Frances Farmer purring at a pat on the head from the Hollywood phonies she would formerly have laughed at.

  • A Hungarian (Sandor Szavost) who whirls Alice around on the dance floor while purring suave come-ons is like Dracula out of a Mel Brooks parody, and Kidman's giggly responses (she's supposed to be drunk) recall Melanie Griffith at her most airheaded.

  • He dispatches his new protégé to grisly crime scenes, purring into her headphones and demanding to know what she sees.

  • The CD-ROM drive started purring, and from there the installation was cake.


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