chirr

Example Sentences

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A pensive stillness passed while they listened to the hushed chirr of insects in the trees that surrounded the cemetery like an embrace.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Hark to the grackles' chirr   Whene'er an elm-bough swings!

From In Divers Tones by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

I heard the death-moth tick and stir, Slow-honeycombing through the bark; I heard the cricket's drowsy chirr, And one lone beetle burr the dark— The sleeping woodland seemed to purr.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

The cricket's chirr and the occasional affirmations of the katy-did were the only sounds she heard.

From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Firebaugh, Ellen M.

A grasshopper, roosting on a blade of grass beneath, his feet, tumbled off and gave vent to his feelings in a belated "chirr."

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)