Chirring

"chirring" of the myriads of insects that haunted the bushy growth with which the whole face of the country was covered, and the occasional call of a bird. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

He knew it was nighttime by the calls of the owls and chirring of the night insects. ❋ Elizabeth Massie (2010)

And as he sang, the memories of the tree from which the harp was made were awoken, and the people of the court were stunned to find themselves surrounded by the scents of spring, by the murmuring of a summer breeze, by the chirring of insects, the pattering of rain, the call of the cuckoo. ❋ Nick Lake (2010)

Outside the cave, in the brazen heat and light of a summer afternoon in Allaxios, only the insects were awake and chirring. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

She seemed to be cawing — croaking, crackling, chirring — though in the absence of anything intelligible, how was it possible to tell? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Crickets chorused through the open windows, their chirring coming in on a warm spring breeze. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2008)

I had known summer days on the prairie when the chirring of insects was a constant, morn to night, so that after a time one could not hear them. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

The creaking of the frogs and the constant chirring of the insects abruptly ceased when I coughed. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2008)

Instead, I moved a few hundred feet away, listening intently for the chirring of his neighbors. ❋ Unknown (2005)

[Kiara]: Chirs is such a bottom [Aaliyah]: [trueee] ❋ Aaliggah (2020)

“i would like to say to [chirs lim] (i am saying this from my own point of view and not the group with which i am affiliated) do you have a life outside of the [WJU] discussion board? does making a mockery of things get you off or something? take up [knitting] or something. make a difference with your life. do something other than all of this” - RJ ❋ Dr. Ubermann (2005)

pimp :omg your sex is so [j-chir]. hoe: wow [thx] boy = or trick1([snutch] nasty): omg is that her??? trick2: who? trick3: [J-CHIR]! ❋ Trick Daddy Yo (2008)