It whirred and vibrated and jumped all over the table, but it did its job well.

NEWYORKER: Luda and Milena

Propane heaters whirred in the dugout, and most players had almost every inch of skin covered.

WSJ: Worley, Twins overwhelmed by Mets 16-5

Cameras whirred, and he pointed out that central Paris had no skyscrapers.

NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour

Behind him, golfers whirred by in carts.

NEWYORKER: Creation Myth

In their latest experiment, Dr Sullivan and his colleagues painted the blades of a rotor with both temperature-and pressure-sensing paints, shone laser light on to them, and mapped out the temperatures and pressures as the blades whirred around as fast as 14, 000 rotations per minute.

ECONOMIST: Pressure paints