Sentence examples for purr of an engine from inspiring English sources

And from the purr of an engine on a wiretap, he can discern whether a suspect is driving a Peugeot, a Honda or a Mercedes.

The company argues that chirps, beeps and alarms are more distracting than useful, and that the best sounds for alerting pedestrians are carlike, such as "the soft purr of an engine or the slow roll of tires across pavement".

There's no noise apart from the occasional purr of a speedboat engine and the chirping of birds in the dense rainforests.

Big Ang, who talks with the mottled purr of an ancient car engine, gave it a try but ultimately was having none of it.

(Not surprisingly, game seemed less spooked by the purring of a vehicle engine than by a noisy troupe of tourists crackling through the undergrowth on foot).

The group doesn't seem to sweat, yet somewhere along the line they sweated the details because they spin out their melodious tunes like the purr of a finely tuned engine.

The steady Sahara wind snapped away the purr of the engine by my head.

Sir Clive, fresh from ennoblement, provided good lines as always, but not because he was happy with the purr of his engine.

The purr of the engine is warm and sedating, and you smile because you can hear every word of the conversation in the car.

The IEDs would have to be defused in the morning light, so we spent the night at a French base, lulled to sleep by the purr of armoured vehicle engines in a mud-brick fort; it was almost as if Mali were still a French colony.

The IEDs would have to be defused in the morning light, so we spent the night at a French base, lulled to sleep by the purr of armored vehicle engines in a mud-brick fort; it was almost as if Mali were still a French colony.