cheep

Example Sentences

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Even the hatcheries across the nation that specialize in mailing chickens — from simple Rhode Island Reds to cockapoo-looking Silkies that arrive to the post office in vented, cheeping boxes — are wiped out.

From Washington Post

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

As he leaned over a trap with a stick to demonstrate what happens when the mechanism is sprung, there was a sudden flutter and cheep by his shoulder.

From New York Times

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

From Scientific American

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