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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
chirrup .
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Examples
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“Nacho, Nacho Man!” he chirruped, wiggling his not unattractive hips.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Billy nodded, then chirruped to the mares, and the descent began through a warm and colorful twilight.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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"Pray do not temper the testimony," Frona chirruped, sweetly.
CHAPTER 28 2010
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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 Fiona Maddocks 2010
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He restored her to herself, tucked the disarranged robe about her, and chirruped to the impatient team.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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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 2010
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Her comm chirruped, interrupting her concentration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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