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
And so I reach, Dear Lord, to Thee, And do beseech Thou givest me The wee cot, and the cricket's chirr, Love and the glad sweet face of her!
From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley
The cricket's chirr and the occasional affirmations of the katy-did were the only sounds she heard.
From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh
A grasshopper, roosting on a blade of grass beneath, his feet, tumbled off and gave vent to his feelings in a belated "chirr."
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The air was full of a faint far chirr of night insects, like an elfin serenade, and here and there among the trees pulsed the greenish-yellow spark of a firefly.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
