churr
Example Sentences
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Local birdwatcher Neil Bostock was the first to discover the birds on 3 June after hearing the "churr" before male and female birds were seen engaging in mating displays, signalling their intent to breed.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2018
“I didn’t really trust it. I remember walking into a received pronunciation class and they were all going ‘How Now Brown Cow’ and I said ‘Do you huv a spur churr?’
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2017
Even the grasshoppers ceased their churr in the trees—only a window rattled somewhere.
From The Torrents of Spring by Constance Garnett
No roaring fires and puffing bellows; no clink of hammer or anvil, and no churr and screech of steel being held against the revolving stones.
From Patience Wins War in the Works by George Manville Fenn
I saw his mouth open and shut, he hollowed his hands round it, but the churr of the motor and the bees drowned his words.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
