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
With that said, take a deep breath, and imagine being surrounded by the fresh scent of pine as mountain chickadees chirp all around you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
I could hardly take another disappointment delivered with a cheerful chirp to my inbox.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2025
He uncrossed his wings and made a real chirp.
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
“This is Meredith,” a voice chirps, before Bezucha cuts from black to a shot of the back of a woman’s head, focusing on her hair that’s been tightly wound into a severe bun.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
When they finally barge back into the main plot, Ash chirps, “Find something you love and go after it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
While some find the buzzes, chirps and trills soothing or exciting, for others, the bugs are annoying or irritating.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2024
“And please don’t let Lou Ann near your hair again,” she says as her phone chirps.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
That was the message from the official Southampton X account to a disgruntled Arsenal fan who had chirped back at the Saints' post celebrating their shock FA Cup victory.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Still, I admired its imagination as it toggled between people and pixels, and shivered when Conor chirped, “Maybe someday we’ll all be living in computers — even dogs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
“Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio!” chirped the official account of Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 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
I chirped, and practically skipped up next to her.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
There was the chirping of cicadas and the crunch of desiccated pine needles underfoot, but the most remarkable thing about the place was the quiet.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
I executed a couple of full-power stops from highway speeds—tires chirping, brake pedal chattering—and our SS slowed up, hard, straight and true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
"It did take her quite a few months to start realising, 'no, this actually is safe'," but now she has "full-blown zoomies outside, tail up, chirping, running around on her lead," Alana said.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
The rising sun and chirping birds woke Booth and Herold early in the morning.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
