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 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 Rives, Hallie Erminie

Hung with the crimson aigrets of its seeds The purple monkshood bleeds; The dewy crickets chirr, And everywhere are lights of lavender; And scents of musk and myrrh To guide the foot of her.

From The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy by Cawein, Madison Julius

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 Firebaugh, Ellen M.

Now an uneasy head is thrust out, and now a whole tiny body, but it soon reënters in another quarter, and at length the stir and chirr grow still.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various