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But, the inevitable tide of inflation, even at 1 percent a year, has eaten away at that gain from the second job and the cheep prices on goods.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2016

“Good putt, bud,” he said to Justin Rose after the Englishman’s uphill, six-foot birdie at the second hole entranced crowds so silent you could hear songbirds cheep.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2014

He goes on: "You could whirl him round in the Hadron collider without getting a single cheep of remorse."

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2012

The phone suddenly goes into four spasms: kachink cheep.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2011

Then, just at the stroke of noon, probably, there came a stirring and the occasional cheep.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

By comparing these acoustic data with climate predictions, the research team hopes to learn how drier conditions in the future could threaten prairie chirps and cheeps.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 17, 2022

But when I refer to birdsong, I mean those longer, more complicated sounds as opposed to the short cheeps and peeps.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 2022

He is also a master of the swell, of getting low notes to fill the hall with tons of pressure and having high birdlike cheeps appearing at the edge of audibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2019

The babies’ cheeps go quiet as soon as she leaves.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

“Just keep it short,” she says over the racket of cheeps when I ask her if I can use her phone.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

As the column of bombers swept toward Germany, Carpet cheeped from every plane, dazzling the Wurzburgs, while more puffs of glittering Window covered the sky with phantoms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snuffy Ledoux crowed and clucked and cheeped; Amarante Cordova brayed like a mule.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

She chortled and cheeped and gave his arm an encouraging peck.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

A bluebottle buzzed upon the window-pane; pigeons flapped from pinnacle to pinnacle of the chapel; sparrows cheeped on a persistent note; pens scratched paper; Mr. Kirkham turned a Blue Book's page at regular intervals.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

My business was song, song, song; I chirped, cheeped, trilled and twittered, "Kate Brown's on the boards ere long, And Grisi's existence embittered!"

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

A month later, we heard cheeping from the house and started to see the yawning beaks of ravenous youngsters at the entrance.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021

I don’t have to start pretend-flying them through the air and make cheeping noises.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2019

We listened to the cheeping of the Shama thrush, native to India.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2011

And a mallard escorts her brood – 10 adorable little cheeping fluffballs – down the rapids.

From The Guardian ● May 17, 2010

They flitted around, their wings flapping against the wiry walls, cheeping their blue heads off.

From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds