cheep

I’ve always found it curious that despite spending even more billions over decades trying to locate other forms of intelligent life we’ve had nary a cheep back; not even a single intergalactic WhatsApp message.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2018

So, this has nothing to do with competition because the rule does not cost more to some ISPs while being cheep for others.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2017

“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

“Cheep, cheep, cheep,” she concludes, waving her head and hands back and forth.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

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

Pressing half a crown in my little fist he moved to get beside the driver, when Robbie cheeped out astonished, 'Is Gordie no to go wi' us?'

From The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 by Gordon Sellar

The sparrow cheeped pitifully as he ran aft again and took the ladder in two jumps.

From H.M.S. —— by John Graham Bower

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