Sentences with phrase «whir at»

So equipped, the Discovery's engine bay emits a delicious metallic whir at full chat, a hallmark of supercharged engines.

In the early morning hours on a frigid Tuesday, New Year's resolutions and sweat were flying in equal amounts at a Crunch in Washington, D.C. Treadmills, ellipticals and stair - climbers were all whirring at a brisk pace, yet a lot of patrons were using no equipment at all.

Renault has fitted the ZE with an artificial sound generator that means the van has a space - age whirr at low speeds.

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And when you complete that first circuit and taste the power of creating your own things that spark and shake and whir, you might see what Adafruit's 200,000 - plus customers have already realized: We are all makers at heart.

But now, with the IPO market at a frothy whir, a 15 % spike was considered a sleepy deal indeed.

Suddenly, in a cycle that repeats every hour, the blades stop whirring, and a robotic arm swoops down and uses its powerful suction shoe to slowly pick up eight curved six - ton concrete panels one at a time and place them on the newly carved wall in a clockwise pattern.

Super-saturated sound - portraits of entrepreneurs and artists at work on the 2400 block of Saint Paul Street: Whirring blenders, whispering crochet needles, bubbling deep - fryers, clanking screen - presses, snipping scissors, and whooshing hair dryers comprise the soundscapes at Style Lab, Ajna Printing, American Wings & Pizza, Lauryn Byrd's Yarn Bombs, and Grind House Juice Bar & Café.

The grain just whirs around in the processor and does not break down at all.

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!)

From throaty classics to whirring hybrid machines, there's been a lot of cool - sounding cars at Le Mans and they've changed a lot since the race began.

Your baby may startle at the unexpected bark of a dog nearby or seem soothed by the gentle whirring of the clothes dryer or the hum of the vacuum cleaner.

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.

Nathan Lakey practically has to shout to be heard over the whirring machinery in the laboratory at Orion Biosains near Kuala Lumpur.

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.»

In a nation that takes its humanoids seriously, the International Robot Exhibition kicked off this week, showing off the latest whirring and buzzing inventions from 192 companies and 64 organisations from at home and abroad.

You can carry only three hats at a time (you can grab more from a central dispenser), and once you're ready, you're supposed to go to the end of the play arena and press an activation button, which turns the whirring blades inside the hats on, pulping the hapless zombies» heads in a shower of gooey redness.

At the beginning a drill whirrs into bone.

Above the din of whirring grinders in a machinist class at South Texas College, senior Nestor Amaya describes how his peers are working with metal components to build a vise.

For students, this will allow them to take what they have learnt about the technology in the classroom and apply it in their revision at home, with the gentle whirr of the printer operating in the background.

A low whining or whirring noise can be heard occasionally at low speeds and idle.

At idle it's making a thin, high - pitched whirring noise almost like an electronically synthesised imitation of what an engine might sound like.

Despite the more civilized power delivery, the GS - tuned engine is still afflicted with subtle, uneven pulses at part throttle, and the turbocharger whistles and whirs like it's bolted into a Class 8 truck.

The standard eight - speed automatic (with shift paddles on the wheel) works like a good coach to keep the four - banger whirring away at optimal rpm, enough so that in daily driving you don't really miss having more cylinders, though admittedly the blown four can't match a stout V - 8 for smoothness and torque.

At idle, the EcoDiesel option made itself known by the clatter of its injectors, that distinct diesel chatter underneath the whir of pumps.

The program looked at dozens of components and systems that affect interior sound, from whirring engines and whining transmission gears to joints in the vehicle's structure that may squeak, and gaps between body panels that could whistle at highway speed.

Check for the characteristic, but momentary, whirring sound from the in - tank fuel pump at key «on».

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.

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.

At low speeds, you can hear the whir of the electric motor as you crank the wheel around.

Then when she mentions sitting out at her new home and hearing the WHIRR of an owl flying close overhead — I knew I wanted to spend no more time in her description of Italy.

But if, like most writers, you have a day - job to pay the bills and provide affordable health insurance (at least until those Nook and Kindle sales begin to whir), whether to tell people at your day - job that you write on the side is something we all have to face.

The chow - hounds race to greet you at the rattle of kibble hitting the bowl or the whirr of the can opener.

The Quiet American has left you with romantic notions of Vietnam: Whirring ceiling fans at the Hotel Metropole, wide, tree - lined avenues and crumbling colonial villas, ochre paint peeling in lazy drifts.

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

Stroll past the dozens of stalls serving food to the fascinated tourists excitedly pointing at giant, steaming woks of noodles, dried sticks of skewered insects and whirring blenders filled with local fruits, and you'll find the experience to be an exquisite assault on the senses.

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.

You've probably sat down to watch a movie at a theater and seen the THX audio logo appear on - screen, accompanied by the iconic deafening whir that gradually increases in volume until it somehow shatters the...

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.

«A Moving Experience: Calder's Forgotten Motorized Sculptures Whirr Back to Life at the Whitney.»

Earlier this month, at Woods Cathedral — a magnificently restored, deconsecrated church built in north west Detroit nearly a century ago — Matthew Angelo Harrison was hunched over his laptop among a heap of extension cords and whirring generators while a crowd looked on.

This morning it was whirring away at about 8 tons per second, passing 200,415,773 tons for this year around 7:45.

The Jetsons — spec whirr from the regenerative braking system at least hints that something special is going on.

«At the moment, when the computer says yes, you can almost hear the sound of chainsaws whirring.

This morning it was whirring away at about 8 tons per second, passing 200,415,733 tons for this year.

Others present at the meeting commented about the unsightliness of a 500 - foot wind turbine, whirring in the midst of a rural landscape.

«I loved the solitude of the computer lab late at night, I loved the air - conditioned smell of the place, I loved the sounds of the discs whirring and the printers clacking.»

One thing you'll notice with the TiVo Bolt Vox — at least if it's sitting out in the open — is that it's constantly whirring.

At such speeds, however, if the camera is facing sideways, you'll capture the front propellers whirring, which may not necessarily be what you want in your video.