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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of chirr.

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Examples

  • My cell phone chirred, waking me from my unexpected siesta in the truck.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • My cell phone chirred, waking me from my unexpected siesta in the truck.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • What a nice sound it was to hear her tearing it out of her checkbook, while the frogs chirred away.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • Crickets chirred, something larger scuttled through the dead carpet of leaves, something else creaked softly, perhaps a frog.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 8.1 of 31.1 2009

  • What a nice sound it was to hear her tearing it out of her checkbook, while the frogs chirred away.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • In the woods on either side, tree frogs and crickets chirred.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • In the woods on either side, tree frogs and crickets chirred.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • In the woods on either side, tree frogs and crickets chirred.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • In the woods on either side, tree frogs and crickets chirred.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • Crickets chirred on as she stood in the darkness staring at him.

    Soul of the Fire Goodkind, Terry 1999

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