| Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast. |
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| For the next half hour, as the rusting guard rails and shoulder-high weeds of the median whirred past, I lost my orientation. |
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| The engine, cranky, rusty, out-of-practice, whirred to life. The entire vehicle began to shake, violently at first, then settling. |
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| Will gave a light two fingered salute to those staying, as the rotors whirred and the chopper left. |
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| Mounted fans whirred overhead, efficiently distributing the rank air and grime into all corners. |
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| In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation. |
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| Raven continued turning the crank and the machine clicked and whirred as all the planets compassed about the sun on their courses. |
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| It beeped and whirred to life, the hard-drive sounding its soft purr as it accessed the system files needed to rouse the little giant. |
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| They whirred, clicked, chirred and rattled till she dumped the whole teeming mass of them on the bed. |
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| As the printing press whirred into action for the first edition of the all-new format yesterday, reporter NADIA JEFFERSON-BROWN was on hand to chart the events. |
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| Next to me, Mr. Walker's camera whirred and clicked rapidly. |
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| Motors roared and whined in an agony of excess power, then died and whirred into silence. |
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| He whirred from his seat like a surprised partridge beaten from a covert. |
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| There was not an ounce of fat in the band: every cog clanked and whirred indispensably. |
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| Cameras whirred, Rwanda's top general made a gracious speech, and Africa-watchers were amazed. |
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| It was utterly still as his computer fan whirred with constant speed. |
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| While the machinery whirred quietly around you, almost by magic, you would make the most fascinating shapes and colours appear on screen. |
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| While the computer whirred and clunked contentedly doing its defragmentation thing, I settled back in my chair, feet up on the desk, to listen to some Handel. |
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| Cobwebs dangled from the ceiling, flitting around as a box fan whirred. |
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| I noticed something was amiss when I checked my email accounts and my mail software froze for a minute or so while the hard drive on my computer whirred. |
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| Different mechanical devices beeped and whirred on tables and panels. |
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| It wouldn't even be decided in a hospital room, where a respirator whirred as the rain pattered on the windowpane, sounds that Karen Ann Quinlan, who used to play the piano by ear, could no longer hear. |
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| Cameras snapped and whirred, yet he was hidden in plain sight. |
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| She remembers when the area's factories whirred. |
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| All night, police helicopters had whirred over the city, foot patrols combed its southern suburbs, and every hour the radio urged the public to be watchful. |
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