chirring

verb

present participle of chirr
as in whirring

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chirring
  1. whirring
  2. humming
  3. whispering
  4. hissing
  5. droning
  6. buzzing
  7. whizzing
  8. sighing
Verb
  • Inside one of American Royal’s vast new barns, the smell of fresh paint still lingers as the hum of whirring drills and construction equipment fills the space just over 15 days until its first event on the new campus.
    — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Visually, the entire set was stunning, with fast cuts of Nancy Whang pounding on her keyboard, Al Doyle whirring his synthesizer, and Murphy shouting into his microphone, wrapped around his arm.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of whirring
Verb
  • To build the president’s White House ballroom, roughly 250 workers have been pouring concrete and installing steel framework, keeping the site humming for 20 hours a day, seven days a week.
    — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
  • As the Yeomen continued losing games last year, the larger college-football machine kept humming at campuses across the country.
    — Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of humming
Verb
  • Pattinson, for his part, could not stop running his hand through his hair and whispering excitedly to his nearby partner, Suki Waterhouse.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The defendant and his attorney, Michael Sanft, wrap arms around one another, whispering a few final thoughts before the moment of judgment.
    — Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of whispering
Verb
  • Scientists previously created tiny diving suits for Madagascar hissing cockroaches that could be used in perilous search operations, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 3 Sep. 2026
  • But delivering that level of craft in a high-octane room where the hissing espresso machine competes with the bassline?
    — Carly Boers, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of hissing
Verb
  • His robust, under-appreciated score is composed with droning synthesizer undercurrents, old-fashioned action adventure fanfares, and intense rapid-fire tracks punctuated by brass exclamations and roaring percussion.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 July 2026
  • The mics do a good job of cutting out droning background noise.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 8 July 2026
Definition of droning
Verb
  • Jourdan Rodrigue has a list of 15 young players the NFL is buzzing about before the regular season starts.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • In eighth grade at Hickory Creek, Ross already had high school track coaches buzzing about her.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of buzzing
Verb
  • First and foremost is, roughly, that thou shalt not think about ordinary objects presently whizzing through ordinary space.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026
  • There’s no better view than from whizzing over the water on these scenic bridges.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of whizzing
Verb
  • The soundtrack—by the frequent Hans Zimmer collaborator David Fleming—is a delight, a polyphonic mood board of ghost-clangs, spooky bassoons, lyrical electro-motifs, and sighing sea themes.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
  • The internet may be full of people who want to outlaw leaf blowers, but misophonic triggers tend to share a bodily quality, an aurally traceable culprit such as a person crunching or sighing.
    — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Definition of sighing
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