chattering

Example Sentences

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The period has been the subject of many other nostalgia pieces, though usually without chittering little oddballs at the center of it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

Some of them are still some singing, said Neufeld-Kaiser, but more of them are “chasing each other around, making a dry chittering “jika jika jika jika jika” call.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

That makes cicadas, with their patient underground waiting and their sudden, chittering emergence, an excellent tool — a kind of yardstick that can be used to measure the future or the past.

From Salon • May 11, 2021

When swifts migrate, chittering clouds of birds circle big school or factory chimneys at dusk and drop into the opening a few at a time in what birdwatchers call a “swiftnado.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2019

‘Just now I is hearing him chittering away to one of them in his cave!’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl