cheeped

True, these pets may have heard their parents 'calls before they were taken from the nest, but it is not at all likely that they would have remembered them, for at first they only "cheeped" after the manner of most bantlings, and only a good while afterward did they fall to using the adult chirp.

Our Bird Comrades 1896

A few birds cheeped in bird innocence, but that was the only sound as the man sauntered toward that purse like some tough sheriff in a Western, though then again, maybe it was just the leather chaps, well, chapping, that made him walk that way.

The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010

A few birds cheeped in bird innocence, but that was the only sound as the man sauntered toward that purse like some tough sheriff in a Western, though then again, maybe it was just the leather chaps, well, chapping, that made him walk that way.

The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010

There was a quarter moon shining, the stars came out, the crickets cheeped.

Culture 2009

There was a quarter moon shining, the stars came out, the crickets cheeped.

Lazy Environmentalist 2009

A faint warm breeze stirred the hairs on his arm as the navy blue sky turned to black as the cicadas cheeped like mobile ringtones.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Small Pepsi challenge. 2009

There was a quarter moon shining, the stars came out, the crickets cheeped.

Dove's Eye View: 2008

The resulting percussion sounded like a gunshot in the relatively tight quarters; the bird panicked and flew back into the window, where it cheeped pathetically and skittered along the windowsill.

October 24th, 2005 2005

How do you do it? cheeped the Gripes in a wherry whiggy maudelenian woice and the jack - asses all within bawl laughed and brayed for his intentions for they knew their sly toad lowry now.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Pots clattered; hatchlings cheeped with single-minded fury.

Snarkometer #24 Miss Snark 2005