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- noun Plural form of
chirr . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
chirr .
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Examples
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The air was full of trills and warbles and chirrs as the birds greeted the dawn.
The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004
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The air was full of trills and warbles and chirrs as the birds greeted the dawn.
The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004
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He paused for a moment beside the mews, noting absently the chirrs and soft calls of the hooded raptors inside.
Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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He paused for a moment beside the mews, noting absently the chirrs and soft calls of the hooded raptors inside.
Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Listen for—purrs of contentment, trills and chirrs, banshee wails when fighting, piercing alarm screams, low warning grunts and loud growls.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Listen for—purrs of contentment, trills and chirrs, banshee wails when fighting, piercing alarm screams, low warning grunts and loud growls.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Listen for—purrs of contentment, trills and chirrs, banshee wails when fighting, piercing alarm screams, low warning grunts and loud growls.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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How he can put side by side such a mess as “With chitterling tricker fast-fluttering skirrs of sound the palmy honied birderies came” and such fine phrases as “tongue-trilling chirrs, plum-bellied smoothness, sweet lucidity” I don’t know.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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How he can put side by side such a mess as “With chitterling tricker fast-fluttering skirrs of sound the palmy honied birderies came” and such fine phrases as “tongue-trilling chirrs, plum-bellied smoothness, sweet lucidity” I don’t know.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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