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  • verb Present participle of chirrup.

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Examples

  • 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 1857

  • 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 2004

  • 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 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • 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.

    Studies and Essays: Quality and Others John Galsworthy 1900

  • 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 Complete Essays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

  • 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.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • 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 2010

  • 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 2011

  • 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 2011

  • 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.

    2010 March 09 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

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