1 the purr of an engine.

2 Carmela heard the purr of a motor-cycle coming up the drive.

3 I heard the gentle purr of an engine outside the house.

4 Cats miaow when they are unhappy, purr when they are happy.

5 A deafening purr, quite ear-splitting!

6 Kittens first purr while suckling when they are a few days old.

7 I could still purr it, bomb it, whatever, without any noticeable difference - other than the clarity.

8 She also writes her own motorcycle column, Purr, and loves riding dirt bikes.

9 Match reports purr with pleasure, capitalising especially brilliant feats for emphasis.

10 If so, the purr helps to establish and maintain a close relationship.

11 For instance, an adult female will purr while suckling her kittens and when she courts a male.

12 Joe kept his voice steady as a cat's purr.

13 I heard cars purr in the distance.

14 At once I heard a soft purr.

15 Never underestimate the power of a purr.

16 Behind me Soot, my black cat, started to purr.

17 To err is human, to purr is feline.

18 According to the book, Lucy's purr signifies the feeling of happy and content.

19 However, other species in the Felidae family also purr: bobcat, cheetah, Eurasian lynx, puma, and wild cat.

20 I could hear the gentle purr of the movie projector.

21 Kittens learn how to purr when they are a couple of days old.

22 The tiny kitten approached the enormous bear and let out a purr and a mew.

23 I stroked the cat and it gave a low purr.

24 Before he could say anything, the telephone on the Grecian plinth nearest to the girl gave a muted double purr.

25 The cat looked into my eyes and began to purr.

26 With relief she began to feed her seafood to Cas, who proceeded to purr like a small traction-engine.

27 The trembling had stopped, though the cat didn't yet purr.

28 The result is aluscious, mobile soundscape,[] capable of ambient purr or abrasive noisebursts.

29 House cats employ a vocal repertoire that extends from a purr to a screech.

30 The cat cleans its luxurious fur, blinks its eyes at you and begins to purr.

1 the purr of an engine.

31 If she's doing something you like, moan or purr to let her know that feels good.

32 Also, including the cry within the purr could make the sound "less harmonic and thus more difficult to habituate to, " she said.

33 People are able to feed the plant by visiting the project at the Queensland library and literally stroking its fronds or soil, which Isai said would prompt it to "croon and purr" through a sound box.

34 The units are the same as the time base register and the sum of the PURR values for both threads is equal to time base register.

35 Karen McComb of the University of Sussex started studying persuasive cat calls after realizing that her own pet used a hybrid between a purr and a cry to get her out of bed in the morning.

36 But it did. The tiny kitten approached the enormous bear and let a purr a mew.

37 His voice was a low soft purr, like the low soft purr made by the opening of an ICBM silo.sentencedict .com

38 He was the first of the kittens to discover he could purr, the first to make endearingly clumsy13 attempts to wash himself, the first to undertake the adventure of climbing out of the wicker basket.

39 They even seem to have a soft purr when they are content.

40 And that in return he should purr, and be sleek and graceful.

41 A Deutsche Bank - style extensionto 60 years would allow the veteran plants to purr on beyond 2030.