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

Now an uneasy head is thrust out, and now a whole tiny body, but it soon reënters in another quarter, and at length the stir and chirr grow still.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

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

From Shapes and Shadows by Cawein, Madison J.

Calls, a clearly piped whistle, and a peculiar chirr, often uttered when taking wing; song, short, simple, but rather sweet.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

But on leading up his horse within ten or twelve feet of the pin, it gives a little "chirr" and dives down out of sight.

From Wild Animals at Home by Seton, Ernest Thompson