How To Use Chirrup In A Sentence
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The sound of crickets chirruping filled the still air.
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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.
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Billy nodded, then chirruped to the mares, and the descent began through a warm and colorful twilight.
CHAPTER XVII
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That isn't traffic noise one can hear above the chirrup of the insects, is it?
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Families of busy mynahs chirruped, foraged for grasshoppers, and then trilled when they took wing as we approached.
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‘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.
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No life was visible - no birds chirruped in the matchstick trees, no children laughed among the remnants of the blaze.
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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.
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The air is full of the smell of honeysuckle, the buzzing of bees, the chirruping of bluebirds, and the sizzling of meat.
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Between each chirrup in a chorus of spring peepers, tiny pauses.
The Sound Thief « A Fly in Amber
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‘Let me continue to look for joy,’ she chirrups in her Hootsmon on Sunday product-placement column.
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He sits there for a while, as if wondering whether or not to go back to bed, then opens his beak for an experimental chirrup.
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Presently she began to chirrup to the bird: soon her chirrup grew clearer; erelong she was whistling; the whistle struck into a tune, and very sweetly and deftly it was executed.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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‘And I would like to point out I can use guitar string as garrote wire,’ Val chirruped almost pleasantly, though the half-berserk glimmer in his eyes warned of sincerity.
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He heard the familiar chirrup of one of those stupid walkie-talkie/cell phones.
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Boost targeted urban youth with such success that the chirrup is now featured in hip hop videos.
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I think the house is so much more fun and nicer than Vegas," she chirruped, the way smart chemists always do.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The 12th Coming
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Super-dry jazz hi-hat work mixes with offhand synth-bass and slivered chirrups of sound sliced thin enough to be just impossible to place.
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A "chirrup" can be sounded if pedestrians or cyclists seem unaware of its presence.
BC Bloggers
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Even the advertising campaign on television is billing the tie as a massacre, happily chirruping: ‘If you thought the cricket was bad…‘
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It was utterly, silent, too - no bird calls or insect chirrups disturbed the sandy desert.
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One of the girls, apparently thinking she had been struck by a stroke of brilliance chirruped, ‘Oh!’
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Betty, the editor's housemaid, has given warning, declaring that she cannot live with any gentleman who insists upon taking her in his arms, and tossing her up and down as if she was no more than a baby; at the same time making a chirruping noise with his mouth, and calling her "poppet" and "chickabiddy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841
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A lamb is bleating out there on the dim moor; a bird somewhere, a little one, about three fields away, makes the sweetest kind of chirruping; some cows are still cropping.
The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
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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.
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They sat there in the dying sunlight as the birds chirruped in the trees.
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‘Yeah, it's been a good conference, a very good one, actually,’ he chirruped on Thursday morning.
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The audiobook begins and ends with the a chorus of chirruping birds, as the reader imagines the reddish brown thick trunks reaching from the fertile earth to the cloudy heavens.
“Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring” by Richard Preston (Random House, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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Instead, at least in its opening bars, the song of the Green Dolphin chirrups along like the opening animation of The Donna Reed Show.
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At the sound of a trilling chirrup, his eyes jerked up.
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In the gathering heat of the afternoon the chirrup of the cicadas filled the garden.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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It's the least I can do,’ Faith chirruped, her eyes wide and bright.
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‘Well, your friends, they're nice,’ Trey chirruped, deciding he would break the ice.
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The music of the spheres turns out to be a mixture of whistles, chirrups, howls, static and something that sounds like chattering voices.
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The musky scents of tropical foliage and decay lay heavy on the air, and the thick drone and chirrup of insects filled the night.
FLOATING CITY
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It is at this stage that Zombie Isner starts to look like Zombie Mahut and the Zombie Umpire stops croaking and starts to chirrup like a grasshopper.
Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June
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Crickets were chirruping idly in the trees, and in the distance, I could see a small child playing with abandoned armaments.
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So - droll sung/spoken vox, chirruping synth loop, mind-numbing repetition - it carbon copies " Once in a Lifetime ".
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Her comm chirruped, interrupting her concentration.
NaNoWriMo: Jump « The Graveyard
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Wouldn't the unity of all things come to you, and wouldn't you chirrup like a bird, and buzz like a bee, and turn imaginary somersaults and dance and sing, and feel like cutting up "didoes," and talk a little high strung, and be chipper with the lowliest and level with the highest?
Brook Farm
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You soon learned to say “bye bye” to me in this chirrupy voice, opening and closing your hand to wave at me.
To Liza on Her First Birthday | Live Granades
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Crickets were chirruping, a soft zephyr was softly blowing the tree branches, and everything was quiet.
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‘Good morning,’ he chirruped, looking way too adorable to be real.
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In short order she transforms the chirrupy Mary Whitehouse of those opening scenes into the steeliest of rebels with a cause.
The Iron Matron
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That he was not the only one to respond with an involuntary stridulation of shock was shown by the number of abrasive chirrups that echoed in close succession through the various individual workstations.
Diuturnity's Dawn
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Your own persevering chirruping is (in my humble judgment) so out of character with a season, in which every wise creature must be apprehensive for the future, that I can only excuse it on the ground of an ignorance and levity, which you have had no opportunity of correcting.
Parables From Nature
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And our vigil was rewarded when we heard the pod begin to vocalise, communicating with each other in a series of far-carrying chirrups and clicks.
Country diary: South Uist
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He's not from England, has visa problems, has money problems, has four kids back home: ‘Love will find a way,’ she chirrups to me.
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‘I'm thinking medical,’ Faith chirruped brightly.
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Outside, the monotonous chirrup of crickets and other night insects formed a gentle hum.
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Cock Robin put his head first to one side, then to the other, and gave a funny, chirrupy laugh.
The Story of a Robin
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They chitter, chatter and chirrup, twitching their tails as if they were furry lariats.
In the urban game park, nut-gatherers rule
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At that moment, the ship's interface gave a loud chirrup.
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American actors doing upper-class British voices habitually only manage them at about two-thirds speed, much slower than the quick chirrup of the real thing.
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It was still Mark's lunchtime and Daniel could hear the chirrup and mutter of voices from the studio behind him.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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A bird chirruped from the boughs of a nearby tree.
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‘Goodness, darling, that up-and-coming young Turk John Major has some sock suspenders exactly like yours,’ she might have chirruped in an unguarded moment.
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Fingers of morning light were gracing the eastern sky and birds were beginning to fidget and chirrup in the trees.
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From inside the pool house, she could hear the faint, chirrupy whisper of the ceiling fan.
Claire de Lune
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Esther works on maintaining her attention only in the present; there is always the now—an endlessly adjusting smell of the wind, the shining of the stars, the deep five-call chirrup chirrup of the cicadas in the park.
Memory Wall
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A dozen nearby sparrows chirruped back.
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He restored her to herself, tucked the disarranged robe about her, and chirruped to the impatient team.
CHAPTER XI
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The only blame you can pin on him in the opening stages [of the World Cup] is that he hasn't scored," chirruped Torres's fellow striker David Villa today.
World Cup 2010 live blog: 30 June
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Not much in the way of details and the picture seems to show a unit with a front panel printed on paper and folded round the box, but the Jomox M-Resonator looks interesting - some kind of envelop-following dual filter that uses technology from the cricket-chirrup-generating Resonator Neuronium.
Jomox M-Resonator Filter Box
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It was still Mark's lunchtime and Daniel could hear the chirrup and mutter of voices from the studio behind him.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The grass shifted and chirruping sounded in the distance, ringing through the forest.
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The three had opened their eyes soon after daybreak and lay in their cots "chirruping," as their mother called it -- talking, planning out a campaign of adventures for the long two days before them.
Major Vigoureux
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Creaky pylons and insect chirrups fill the periphery; Frisell is beginning to be unpredictable again…
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There are other sounds, now that the shrill cry of the hyla is stilled -- the cawing of crows beyond the wood, the scratching of a beetle in the crisp leaves, the cheep of a prying chickadee, the tiny chirrup of a cricket in the grass -- remnants of sounds from the summer, and echoes as of single strings left vibrating after the concert is over and the empty hall is closed.
The Hills of Hingham
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Thank you, NaNoWriMo Master, for the motivation and THANK GOD I don't get those chirrupy messages argh!
Today's Nanowrimo Inspirational Diatribe; Or, Don't Say We Never Did Anything For You
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‘Thank you for letting me stay over, Mrs. Ratana,’ Kira chirruped politely, bowing slightly to Rebecca.
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A dozen nearby sparrows chirruped back.
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‘Ooh, thank god, it's Friday,’ Faith chirruped, but the real deal was she wasn't looking very cheery.
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A progressive chirrup let us know we had been confirmed.
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‘Excellent, Princess Emmeline,’ The first nymph chirruped brightly.
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In the gathering heat of the afternoon the chirrup of the cicadas filled the garden.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Super-dry jazz hi-hat work mixes with offhand synth-bass and slivered chirrups of sound sliced thin enough to be just impossible to place.
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‘Oh, that must be her,’ Mr. Larsin chirruped and jumped out of his seat to answer the door.
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In fact, crickets and grasshoppers are so sensitive to temperature they can even be used as a thermometer, by counting their chirruping.
Weatherwatch: how to use a cricket as a thermometer
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His chirrupy letters to Hofmannsthal make no mention of the trauma he was going through, namely that the text was triggering deep anxieties deriving from his own ambivalent attitude towards his parents.
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A sparrow chirrups on the rooftop next to me, and a bee carelessly buzzes into the honeysuckle growing down my wall.
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For an hour, our group wandered round Pripyat, stepping over broken glass and lumps of wood and stone, with the constant chirrup of our radiation counters providing warnings if we strayed too far.
Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape
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Outside, a bird chirruped extra loud and he covered his ears with a scowl.
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‘A pretty penny for the NHS,’ it chirruped the day after the budget.
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I was freewheeling down towards Bannow Bay in glorious sunshine, the roads deserted, the warm, pine-scented breeze in my hair and the sound of chirruping insects in the hedgerows
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He was grinning and all but dancing as the woodwind chirruped and tweeted, in the archaic sense of the word, in the "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks".
Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev
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When dressed as women, they painted their faces, chirruped with their lips, and coquetted.
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‘I'm not stopping,’ chirrups the visitor who settles down for a cuppa and a natter with her coat on.
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The Virgin Voyager train travelling from Newcastle to Cardiff had to be cancelled when the train manager discovered a bag full of chirruping creepy-crawlies near the buffet area.
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The usual chirrup of crickets down below filled Lily's ears, but as she glanced up at the stars, vaguely picking Ursa Major out of the bunch, she suddenly felt D.J.'s arm wrap around her.
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The markets now resemble those nesting chicks that chirrup constantly for their parents to feed them. They gorge on a daily diet of supposedly important economic data.
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In the branches above him birds chirruped, startling him.
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There's nothing like learning jujutsu from a chirrupy-voiced upperclass English lady, as seen in this classic video from 1931.
Archive 2009-02-01
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There's nothing like learning jujutsu from a chirrupy-voiced upperclass English lady, as seen in this classic video from 1931.
England--- Home of Jujutsu
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The sound of crickets chirruping in the bushes to the side of the porch adds to the appeal of the Spring time night.
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The musky scents of tropical foliage and decay lay heavy on the air, and the thick drone and chirrup of insects filled the night.
FLOATING CITY
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Hall's pieces are pastoral, evoking the chirrup of birds who have learnt the song of car alarms, and the grunt of a badly maintained bus.
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The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us.
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But his spirit was bitter and sere without Oba-chama's bright eyes and chirrupy voice.
The Miko
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A owl hooted in the distance and the crickets chirruped.
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To the sound of waves lapping on the shore and the relentless chirruping of cicadas, the world-famous El Bulli restaurant of Spanish chef Ferran Adrià closed its doors.
How a wartime romance gave birth to the best restaurant in the world
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And I seen all them millions this afternoon when them seven hundred dollars peeped up at me from the bottom of the pan and chirruped, 'Well, if here ain't Burning Daylight come at last.'
Chapter X
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In the gathering heat of the afternoon the chirrup of the cicadas filled the garden.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Meanwhile, strange chirrupy sounds draw me to the puppet show dais!
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They chitter, chatter and chirrup, twitching their tails as if they were furry lariats.
In the urban game park, nut-gatherers rule
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Margo MacDonald chirrups: ‘Keep a pure heart, an insatiable curiosity and a good hairdresser.’
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Oh and there's also a chirrup like a clockwork cicada in there.
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“Nacho, Nacho Man!” he chirruped, wiggling his not unattractive hips.
Archive 2009-01-01
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In the big, well-insulated A4, this turbo powerplant mustered a mild chirrup when the waste-gates opened.
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The musky scents of tropical foliage and decay lay heavy on the air, and the thick drone and chirrup of insects filled the night.
FLOATING CITY
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Again, it should be known that the conventional "chirrup" (7) to quiet and "cluck" to rouse a horse are a sort of precept of the training school; and supposing any one from the beginning chose to associate soft soothing actions with the "cluck" sound, and harsh rousing actions with the "chirrup," the horse could be taught to rouse himself at the
On Horsemanship
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Festive sprays of leaf and berry heighten the bright and breezy feel of this sub-Saharan Dinky-Dell, and enhance its Greeting Card air of chirrupy good cheer.
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The ants have two segments of their abdomen, that's the last section of their bodies, that they rub together and one of these sections has a whole series of grooves on them and the other half has something that we call the plectrum, that is a bit like the plectrum of a guitar except it itself has several grooves, and when they rub these two surfaces together it produces sort of chirruping type noises.
Undefined
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A thousand frogs who had been silent for two years were calling to each other in the wash… a monumental chorus of deep lusty ba-booms, frenzied clicks and seductive chirrups.
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‘Battery's getting low,’ he said, as the phone uttered a brief chirrup.
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A nurse from Kerala fluttered into the room, adding sparrowy chirrups of complaint to the aviary of sounds I could already hear.
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The meadow was silent save for the chirrups of crickets.
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Net article receiving lots of comments, nearly all predictably of the "shut up, I'm right" and "don't make trouble where there is one" and "you're an idiot and WikiChix suck" variety, this chirrupy commentary concluded thatthe blogosphere was notprimarily male dominated based on a seriesof scientifically-conductedcounts of blogs, topics and genders of contributors.
March 2009
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It was still Mark's lunchtime and Daniel could hear the chirrup and mutter of voices from the studio behind him.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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His note suggested to me the shrill chirrup of a sparrow, and his appearance that of a greenfinch.
First footsteps in East Africa
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The musky scents of tropical foliage and decay lay heavy on the air, and the thick drone and chirrup of insects filled the night.
FLOATING CITY
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Via this intensive but bleary-eyed study, I've noticed with alarm that the warbling and chirruping of some birds increasingly resembles the ring tones of some mobile phones.
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In the gathering heat of the afternoon the chirrup of the cicadas filled the garden.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Pray do not temper the testimony," Frona chirruped, sweetly.
CHAPTER 28
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At night other sounds are heard, less agreeable to the ear: the shrill "chirrup" of cicadas and tree-toads ringing so incessantly, that only when they cease do you become conscious of their existence; the dull "gluck-gluck" of the great bullfrog; the sharp cries of the heron and _qua-bird_; and the sepulchral screech of the great horned owl.
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
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It was still Mark's lunchtime and Daniel could hear the chirrup and mutter of voices from the studio behind him.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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A owl hooted in the distance and the crickets chirruped.
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He slightly slacked the reins on the restless, head-tossing animals, and without need of chirrup they took the weight of the light vehicle and passed up the hill and apprehensively on the inside of the purring machine.
CHAPTER X
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‘Of course, no trouble at all,’ Wendy Barrett had chirruped over the phone when I'd asked her if I could specially order a weekday dinner - normally it's weekends only at Augill Castle.
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Maybe it's the seductive chirruping of cicadas in the cypress trees.
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The music of the spheres turns out to be a mixture of whistles, chirrups, howls, static and something that sounds like chattering voices.
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‘Mr. Duvall, it's no problem for me, but four o'clock, I will be back,’ she chirruped and then left the area.
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Outside, the crickets chirrup incessantly in the humid Indian night.
