charred

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Hot spots continued to smolder on the charred hillside as firefighting helicopters chirred overhead.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2019

So it must have simply astonished the dons of Oxford to hear this peculiar Italian, as he dipped and dodged, chucked and chirred, defending Copernicanism as the literal truth.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

I hed chirred a piece o’ ground around the shanty—a kupple o’ acres or better—I hed left the stumps a good three feet high: thur wan’t a stump to be seen.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne

Crows and hawks cawed and screamed; kingfishers and squirrels chickered and chirred, but no animal came near the traps.

From Lost in the Ca?on by Calhoun, Alfred R.

A partridge chirred softly in the pastures up above me, and a wild screaming of sparrows came at intervals from a thorn-thicket, where they seemed to be holding a fierce and disorderly meeting.

From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher