chirp
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The rising sun bathes the rolling Herefordshire hillsides in a warm glow as birds gently chirp and sheep graze in the fields.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"The chirp in this supernova signal is like that engine pulling back the curtain and revealing that it's really there."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
“But if you had the same player chirp and chirp, that player that’s just always on you, literally anything they say goes through one ear and out the other.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
I could hardly take another disappointment delivered with a cheerful chirp to my inbox.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2025
It was just as marvelous for his mother to be singing as it was for a cricket to chirp familiar songs.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
“I’m going to put on my bathing suit right now!” she chirps from her bedroom, sounding happier than most about the prospect of changing into swimwear on a raw and cloudy afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Kate says, appearing shocked at the implication, and once her friends relax again, she chirps.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025
“You’re all done,” Atkinson chirps to her dog, marking the spot with a small flag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
These beady-eyed amphibians can be found on the banks of noisy streams throughout China, where the rapids would drown out ordinary croaks and chirps.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 11, 2024
Surrounded by nature—a gurgling stream, the caws, chirps of birds, a forest quiet humming underneath all the other sounds.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
His phone chirped every few minutes as locals called for updates on the fire or just to see whether he’s open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
“Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio!” chirped the official account of Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2024
Julie Hendricks-Atkins' colleagues chirped from their cubicles in Lower Manhattan.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
The team's independently developed chirped quasi-phase-matching device generates quantum-entangled light by harnessing chirping -- gradually changing an element's polarization reversal period -- to generate quantum photon pairs over a wide bandwidth.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2024
Otto seemed to love the sleepless chaos and chirped happily at the restless people we passed in the hall.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
Farah expects astronomers to discover many more "chirping" supernovae once the Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins its unprecedented survey of the night sky.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
So the crickets are actually chirping loudly, if you listen to them.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
The host handed me a blindfold and Bose noise-canceling headphones, playing the hypnotic sounds of a space drum with birds chirping in the distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
I love catching snippets of a passing conversation or the chirping of an unfamiliar bird.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
All that comes through is a stream of rapid-fire chirping.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
