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
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
The soldier stood erect, gray-faced and immovable, his eyes fixed, his teeth set, his hand gripping the pike, till the insects, reassured, began to chirr close about him.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
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
Their call for food was a sibilant chirr, and they gave it much oftener than any of the grown-up woodpecker notes.
From A-Birding on a Bronco by Florence A. Merriam
