Sentences with phrase «whir as»

Hubs of sensors whir as the cars self - drive.

In 2008, the feathers caught the interest of Christopher J. Clark of the University of California, Riverside, who has analyzed how male hummingbirds make their tails whine and whir as they flirtatiously dive - bomb females.

Tonight as I sit by the window and watch the snow swirl outside and listen to the wheels whirring as some poor soul tries to free his car from a snowbank, I strain to think about snow and skiing and John Coleman, but mostly I think about fishing.

Sixvideo cameras whirred as he planted a kiss on the lips of his wife, Connie.More than 50 sets of eyes watched as he lifted himself into the cockpit.

His creation has a human face and human hands and feet, but her arms and torso are transparent, revealing the machinery within alight with a soft blue glow, servos whirring as she moves.

There's a lot of clanking and whirring as it unlatches from the windshield frame, folds up and then stows itself beneath a rear hatch.

Mercedes - Benz took the Frankfurt Auto Show with both a bang and a whirr as it showcased not just a world - beating Mercedes - AMG Project One «hypercar» - the brand's first foray into such rarefied air in well over a decade - but also several facets of its electrification strategy, which figures ever more prominently in the plans of all global automakers.

When I'm up at night, my brain whirrs as I count the days, weeks, months and now...

When I'm up at night, my brain whirrs as I count the days, weeks, months and now years since I turned my back on expat life.

Space is organic and time is non-linear — a group of different objects moving through the picture plane at various rates of speed, in opposite directions, some gliding slowly and others whirring as if in a blender.

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And in the afternoon, as I was beginning to make supper, I heard your old saw begin to whirr.

Whir them up in your blender with all the other classic margarita ingredients to make a skinny frozen cocktail at home that's just as good as (if not better than, and definitely healthier than!)

THE buzz and whirr of machinery filled the NEC Birmingham recently as the PPMA Show returned for 2017.

Those onion pieces or pesto will stick to the base as they whir around, and you'll need to manually reincorporate them into the mix.

The room was silent now, no beeping monitors, no swishing sound of her oxygen flowing from the pump in through her nasal prongs breathing in life, just the whirring of the breast pump as I sat down to express Olivia's breast milk, milk she would never need again, never drink.

2) Smooth and Quiet Pan / Tilt / Zoom Camera Control — An essential feature of the Astra is its ability to remote control the video camera and provide a detailed and all - round view of the entire room, without making so much as a whirring noise.

The fan in the humidifier whirs quietly as it disperses a soothing mist.

So what goes through your mind as you sit and listen to that whirring?

Shortly before the start of their afternoon session, Valesky briskly strode into the Senate chamber attempting to ignore questions as cameras whirred away.

«Barely two hours later and the fax machine in Mr Cameron's office has whirred out a letter from the Prime Minister confirming that yes indeed, those meetings can go ahead as agreed by Tony Blair in 2006.

By Saturday afternoon, the whir of powerful winches and the roar of angle grinders fills the air as the front runners scramble to make improvements: Helios gets a whole arm replaced, broken in a fall; Momaro spends the morning practising on the dummy stairs, surrounded by its engineers.

The machine whirred like a turbine as a coil made of 90 kg of copper and aluminum began spinning to generate the current.

Inside the MRI machine, the intensity of the emotions from that long - ago afternoon are flooding back into my brain as I hear the distant whir of the great magnet wrapped around my head and a stream of clicks and sounds of grating metal.

Behind the building, a biodiesel generator and waste vegetable oil boiler, both dormant during the summer months, attest to the aquaponic system's thirst for energy — the pumps, filters and bioreactor run year - round at a sometimes deafening whir, and the winter brings a need to heat the tanks and power overhead lights, as well.

Warkentin hovers behind her as she presses a black button, and with a faint whir, the tube begins to rotate like a spit over a fire.

Meanwhile, the carbon market keeps whirring, and Margolis keeps brokering — or, as he likes to put it, «making the world a better place, one deal at a time.»

President Barack Obama's proposed $ 1 billion bet on a manufacturing innovation network hinges upon places such as Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where the whirring sounds of 3D printers and laser cutters filled the engineering department's invention center on a late Friday afternoon.

As the planet whirs around its host star every 1.5 days, it may be evaporating with every orbit.

It sustains a palpable fatalism in such recurring details as a whirring buzz saw and the cry of a loon, while the static camera and lack of musical cues enable some unforeseeable plot twists.

Marlene Dietrich tries not to give anything away as usual while Agatha Christie's whodunit plot whirs tidily about her expressionless beauty.

There's an actual tenderness that develops between Tyler and Bomer, though their shared scenes create an altogether different kind of energy from the other characters, as if indeed this was the episode of some cheesy television series whirring back and forth between the banal subplots of its human characters.

Quiet music, generic sound effects, and gentle engine whirring are nowhere near as satisfying as the audio in most other similar games.

You can buy that the gentle whirs of Ava's head tilts and the light whooshes of the complex's glass doors are Nathan's own delicate flourishes rather than strictly being Garland's, in part thanks to an inspired, unsettled performance by Isaac, who plays Nathan as the kind of handsome bro who knows he can get away with sporting ugly,»90s - derived wire frames.

It does not disappoint in this regard, as bullets whir, casualties rack up, and the quest for redemption marches on.

Friday couldn't get here fast enough, and, when the day came, we all rushed into class and excitedly took our seats as the VCR whirred to life.

Cobbled together using spare parts, Atom is every bit the junkyard robot he's described as — with a face that resembles a fencing mask, bronze hands that look like boxing gloves, and a whirring motor in his back.

A pencil sharpener whirs in Newton's eighth grade history class, as Hawkins passes out copies of a scholarly article.

As we head out of the pits there's some electric whooshing, more whirring, and whining, forward movement.

It launches with whisper - quiet, high - pitched whirs, which are exchanged for the subtle din of wind noise as it reaches speed.

The engine takes an age to start but when it does it's worth the wait as it whirs and slurps and rattles and roars.

The engine note is mellower than in the previous - generation type 993, but it still whirs and flutters as a Porsche should.

-- the 918 whirs forward, as mute as a fish.

It's just a pity that, as ever, it's the whirr of meshing supercharger rotors that's the dominant sound from the engine bay.

The C - HR is quiet enough to hear the faint whirr of the electric motor at times though, which gives a good impression as to the Toyota's refinement.

Our 2013 Honda Accord test car whirred its way to 60 mph in 7.8 seconds (7.5 seconds with 1 foot of rollout as on a drag strip).

Then, with the whir of an electric motor, the seat belts are offered forth to both the driver and front passenger, as an arm pushes the belt forward from where the B pillar would be — just as they are in a Bentley.

Whether in the muffled whir of hybrid mode or the near silence of all - electric driving, I was struck by a ride quality that's about as smooth and compliant as a large luxury sedan.

We've become used to the warble and whirr of a tiny three - cylinder engine in city cars such as the Toyota Aygo, Citroen C1 and Peugeot 107, but is Ford's decision to fit its all - new, 1.0 - litre triple into its best - selling Focus a step too far?

The Prius C is quiet, as you'd expect, at idle and the periodic whirring and clunking of the electrics that made this car famous are not off - putting.