<Office Goldberg turned on the siren and Officer Johnson drove off. Rrrr! Rrrr! Each time the car hit a bump, Cam’s and Eric’s heads hit the roof of the car. Rrrr! Rrrr! —David A. Adler, Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery.>
n. the ringing of a school bell, as in Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth by Susanna Natti; see also brrnnngg.
rrrr rrrr rrrr.
n. the “little” sound of a sewing machine, as in the story “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros (anthologized in The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970 by Lex Williford); see also rrrrrrrrrr.
n. the howl of a tornado ripping through a wheat field, as described in The Breathtaker by Alice Blanchard.
RRRR RRRR RRRRR.
(also RRRRR RRRR RRRRR, RRRR RRRRRR RRRRR.) n. the rasping of a blade being sharpened.
<RRRR RRRR RRRRR rasped the blade. He’d been sharpening the knife a long time; I wondered how sharp it had to be. Perhaps he would forget to stop and would sharpen it down to nothing. RRRRR RRRR RRRRR. —Richard Mosher, Zazoo.>
rrrr rrrrrr.
n. the fast whine of a motorboat whose motor is sticking out of the water, as described in The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome by Jim Carrier.
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