[
UK
/tʃˈɪɹʌp/
]
VERB
-
make high-pitched sounds
the birds were chirping in the bushes
NOUN
- a series of chirps
How To Use chirrup In A Sentence
- The sound of crickets chirruping filled the still air.
- Another pair of wings momentarily blinded her, and every bird that had occupied the tree suddenly left in a rush, loud chirrups marking their way.
- Billy nodded, then chirruped to the mares, and the descent began through a warm and colorful twilight. CHAPTER XVII
- That isn't traffic noise one can hear above the chirrup of the insects, is it?
- Families of busy mynahs chirruped, foraged for grasshoppers, and then trilled when they took wing as we approached.
- ‘This is Isaac - I expect you to treat him with the same respect as your peers,’ she chirruped, and then pointed to the empty desk behind me where Rachael usually sat.
- No life was visible - no birds chirruped in the matchstick trees, no children laughed among the remnants of the blaze.
- The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
- The air is full of the smell of honeysuckle, the buzzing of bees, the chirruping of bluebirds, and the sizzling of meat.
- Between each chirrup in a chorus of spring peepers, tiny pauses. The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber