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n.  the howl of an alarm, as during a civil-defense drill in From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman.


n.  the sound of machine-gun fire, as described in Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines by Bill Hicks.

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n.  the whine of police sirens, as described in the novel Daughters of Courage by Red Jordan Arobateau.

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n.  the whoosh of a “fat race-car tire” flying out of a “virtualized” video game, as described in the novel Spy Kids Adventures: Mall of the Universe by Elizabeth Lenhard.

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n.  a “mechanical whirring sound” in the Futurist poetry of Carlo Carrà, as discussed in The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928 by Willard Bohn.


n.  a dog’s growl.

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n.  a sound made while beating someone with a stick, as in the novel Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.

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