chirrup

The chirrup or trill greeting is a melodious sound that cats make when saying hello to preferred individuals.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2022

Capturing just 20 seconds of a songbird's chirrup, or an elk's bugle, or a kangaroo's chortle often requires hours of stillness and solitude.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2021

On a visit in June, the central gaming floor buzzes with the grim tension of high-stakes card games, regularly interspersed by the electronic chirrup of slot machines dishing out their jackpots.

From Time ● Jul. 19, 2016

An antique and strangulated chirrup, with a performance to match.

From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2016

They stepped off the black road and into the knee-high grass, swishing their legs through the stems, watching the insects hovering, darting, fluttering, skimming, hearing the million-voiced chorus chirrup and scrape.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Mother monkeys kept up their calls, baby monkeys chirruped.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019

“What does July 4th mean to me? Freedom,” Sen. Ron Johnson chirruped on Twitter on Independence Day.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2018

"Currently, Drogba is still a player of Shanghai Shenhua, the contract between the two parties is still within the period of validity," chirruped a club statement.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2013

"There are all sorts of little buttons you can press," he chirruped, adding that lots of children were waiting outside.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2011

He ground his teeth together and tried not to hear as Sergeant Whitcomb chirruped exultantly over the tragic event.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Musicians have long incorporated nature's sounds into their music - think of the chirruping in The Beatles' "Blackbird", or the rain falling in "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024

During trials, a lone bat had taken an unexpected test flight through the curtain of water before returning to the colony, chirruping away, he said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

This gentler visual approach extends to the audio; in “Herons,” one of the diaries accessible from the hub, you’ll hear the quiet chirruping of birds amid bright dawn sun.

From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2021

In the darkness, people moved together in a loose chain, softly chirruping and wind-milling their arms wide to urge the last of the reindeer down to the corral.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019

Pantalaimon began a chirruping conversation as a baby swallow, and Lyra joined in, and so did Asta.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman