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n.  the sound of an automobile engine, as made by a child playing with Hot Wheels toy cars in the novel Rails Under My Back by Jeffery Renard Allen.

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n.  the train-like roar of someone snoring, as in the novel A Crazy, Mixed-Up Spanglish Day by Marisa Montes; see also RRRR-rrr-rrr-rr.

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n.  “a parakeet’s attempt to imitate the sound of a cash register” (Patricia Highsmith, “A Bird in the Hand,” Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith.>

rrrrr-rrrr-rrrr.

n.  the sound of running.

<Running in the rain.  /  Running through the snow.  /  Running on the beach.  /  Rrrrr-rrrr-rrrr!  —Lea M. McGee, Designing Early Literacy Programs: Strategies for At-Risk Preschool and Kindergarten Children.>

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n.  the “deep, slow, rasping, repetitive purr” of the Seychelles Scops-owl, as described in Birds of the Seychelles by Ian Bullock.

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n.  the sound of an automobile engine, as described in the story “Half Past Four” by Ursula K. Le Guin (Unlocking the Air: Stories).

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