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
And so I reach, Dear Lord, to Thee, And do beseech Thou givest me The wee cot, and the cricket's chirr, Love and the glad sweet face of her!
From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley
Nothing broke their stillness save the occasional sharp chirr of a chipmunk, or the tapp, tapp of the little black-and-white wood-peckers on some hollow limb.
From Dusty Star by Olaf Baker
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
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 Hallie Erminie Rives
