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:

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.
': “Whir am I?”
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.
whir `in what place?
What really is whir meant to imitate?