What is "chirr"

Usage examples of "chirr".

With Hannah she went deep into the woods to gather beechnuts while squirrels chirred and barked overhead, leaping from branch to branch in shivering outrage.

Vast flocks of birds of every description, most of them kinds she had never seen, ranged on the waters, clucking and wheedling and croaking and whistling each in their own tongue, and insects buzzed and chirred and in general made a nuisance of themselves.

She accepted the fact with a near approximation of a shrug, chirred softly and came to him.

The second printer, the one loaded with draft forms, chirred softly under the desktop, and spat a slip of soft paper.

We opened the windows to let in fresh air and covered the sick man with a light woollen cloth, and the chirring of the crickets blended with the rasp of his breathing.

As she turned and saw him she gave out a soft chirring and her large eyes caught the light.

That night I slept naked on the bedroom carpet, flashlight by my head and screened windows open to the sound of the fountains below and the chirring of tree frogs.

There were dark woods on either side, throwing long shadows across the moon-whitened dust, and he heard the noise of crickets chirring and once there was an owl.

Darkness closed in, the crowds thickened again, and Mingolla continued his walk, strolling past stalls with necklaces of light bulbs strung along their frames, wires leading off them to generators whose rattle drowned out the chirring of frogs and crickets.

The gryphon made a chirring sound, something between a snort and a chuckle.

Above them from a tree in the yard, a bird chirrs the same repeating pattern.

In the desert reaches of my own world there had always been the chirring of locusts, the scurry of some burrowing marmot, the distant song or flutter of a flock of birds, the lonely wheeling of a vulture.

She sat down on a rock and looked out at the water, while the computer's disk drive chirred softly to itself.

The morning was quiet enough for him to hear the chirring of insects, the squawk of the go-away birds, the sough of the breeze through the feathery leaves of the jacaranda whose powerful branches arched above him.

Insects chirred all around in the dry grasses, insects and grass perhaps from the same long-lost world as the beasts which the Preservers had shaped into the ancestors of his own bloodline.