Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a whir; whirring.
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Examples
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Their passage stirred, above the wheat, a cloud of insects as thick as dust, opalescent wings awhir.
The Irda Baker, Linda P. 1995
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The fields of the garnered harvest shone with a golden stillness, awhir with shimmering flocks of starlings.
The Return Walter De la Mare 1914
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