What is "chirpings"

Usage examples of "chirpings".

There were chirpings and hootings and squeaks, and the gruntings made by native animal life.

There were chirpings which were the cries of what might be approximately described as wild pigs, except that they weren't.

In between came chirpings and abrupt paeans of music, like woodwinds essaying tentative melodic runs.

But when Calhoun switched on the outside microphones a faint, sweet melange of high-pitched chirpings came from tiny creatures hidden under the vegetation of the mountainsides.

Their excited chirpings and squeals indicated something was upsetting them.

Her voice started a flutter of surprised and excited chirpings, and she wondered if by any possible freak actually understood that she was singing about grateful holds honoring dragonriders.

He had been dreaming of wandering peacefully in the woods, hearing the sweet chirpings of the birds, trying to turn the bits of their songs into music.

But the chirpings were subtly changing to whispers he couldn't quite understand no matter how much he strained, the sense of them not quite perceivable yet filling him with such a feeling of growing menace that the Bard awoke with a gasp, staring blankly up at the black silk canopy, a darker mass in the room s darkness, his heart pounding fiercely.