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
There was no insect sound to chirr; No wind to make a little stir.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
Nothing broke their stillness save the occasional sharp chirr of a chipmunk, or the tapp, tapp of the little black-and-white wood-peckers on some hollow limb.
From Dusty Star by Olaf Baker
But on leading up his horse within ten or twelve feet of the pin, it gives a little "chirr" and dives down out of sight.
From Wild Animals at Home by Ernest Thompson Seton
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
