Words similar to whir

Example sentences for: whir

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

whir `in what place?
': “Whir am I?”
The wheels of the trains, the whir of the airplanes, the lights in all the houses go out, because we have reached the limits of two zeroes.
Thus, Joel Kotkin and others cheerily predict that a handful of "tribes"--the Chinese, the Indians, the Jews, and others--will make the global economy hum and whir.
What really is whir meant to imitate?