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 crickets' chirr 'neath brier and burr, By leaf-strewn pools and streams, When Autumn stands 'mid the dropping nuts, With the book, she shuts, Of dreams.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
Calls, a clearly piped whistle, and a peculiar chirr, often uttered when taking wing; song, short, simple, but rather sweet.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
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
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
