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
I heard the death-moth tick and stir, Slow-honeycombing through the bark; I heard the crickets' drowsy chirr, And one lone beetle burr the dark— The sleeping woodland seemed to purr.
From Shapes and Shadows by Madison J. Cawein
It was a hot humid night, with the chirr of queer insects outside mocking with weary iteration the lusty snores of the weary farm hands.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson
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 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
