chirr
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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
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 soldier stood erect, gray-faced and immovable, his eyes fixed, his teeth set, his hand gripping the pike, till the insects, reassured, began to chirr close about him.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
Hark to the grackles' chirr Whene'er an elm-bough swings!
From In Divers Tones by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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
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