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- verb Present participle of
churr .
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Examples
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Unfortunately, despite much searching, I was not able to find a video or audio file of this species's song, but I did find this description: "The male, stretching his neck skyward and holding his wings out at the bend, vigorously produces a long clear ringing song: the female answers with a churring or purring note."
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Whenever I fall to daydreaming about the English landscape, I see it from the stern of a canal boat, tiller in hand, the diesel engine churring underfoot.
The Best Way Through England Is Wet Jonathan Raban 2011
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Its wee mouth gaped, emitting an odd, churring sound, like a hummingbird.
Delivery 2010
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The well-oiled, liquid churring of these oddly moth-like birds was a continuous background to our summer evenings and nights in the camp, like taxis waiting with engines ticking over.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The well-oiled, liquid churring of these oddly moth-like birds was a continuous background to our summer evenings and nights in the camp, like taxis waiting with engines ticking over.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The continuing destruction of Afromontane grassland habitat threatens the locally occurring churring cisticola (Cisticola njombe) and the blue swallow.
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Something squished with every step, until they could no longer hear the squashings because the chittering and churring around them had grown too loud.
Reiffeins Choice 2006
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The night creaked in on the wings of countless wakeful insects churring.
Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005
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My iBook sounds broken - either a blank screen, vacant and unresponsive, or a churring sound indicative of some possible hardware problem that comes and goes, if that's possible.
Everything is either minimal, unobtainable, or broken jinty 2004
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The babies climbed about her person, exploring pockets in search of tidbits, while Hing sat in Laris's lap, churring a meercat's sound of pleasure as the girl scratched behind her ears.
Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004
chained_bear commented on the word churring
"...the uncommon plants such as bishop's snodgrass, the puffins nesting in rabbit-burrows, and the stormy petrels, which could be heard churring in their companionable way, far down in their musky holes..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 155
See also churr.
February 29, 2008