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Recent Examples of chirp
Verb
Panthers center Sam Bennett, who had a contentious altercation with Marchand in Round 2 of the playoffs last year, said Marchand’s first message after being added to the team group chat was a chirp.—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025 Instead of a bland playlist, you ears will pick up on the cheerful chirps of finches from their nine-foot-tall birdcages.—Katie Chang, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
All around this verdant peninsula on Italy’s Tuscan coast, the swifts chirped ecstatically, as if broadcasting the news: Breakfast cakes are warm!—Ashley Baker, Air Mail, 14 June 2025 The first rays of sun can be seen, and birds are chirping.—Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chirp
Before leaving, make sure to peep the world’s finest collection of Southwestern jewelry and Naranjo Morse’s daughter Eliza’s mural leading downstairs to the Case Trading Post.
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Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
Each of the game’s different courses are fully available to drive through at pace to peep for collectibles (there’s hundreds) and alternate paths to remember later in races.
Outraged, Anya tweeted at the museum that this was akin to saying, without additional context, that an Impressionist painting had been acquired in Vienna in 1942.
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Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
Pacers President of Basketball Operations Kevin Pritchard tweeted after the pick.
The screech of an infected is the first sign of trouble.
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EW.com,
EW.com,
19 May 2025
The constant clang of metal and the screech of drills suggest the sort of work underway at a warehouse-turned-workshop in this Ukrainian city about 300 kilometers (180 miles) east of Kyiv.
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Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 June 2025
When the spotlight hit vocalist Noah Sebastian, a decidedly un-metal chorus of teenage squeals filled the air.
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Cal Roach,
jsonline.com,
5 July 2025
The gym was quiet, echoing only the squeal of sneakers and pounding of the basketball instead of the music and laughter that typically accompany a pregame training session.
Evening had fallen, and bats chittered in the sky outside.
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Pete McKenzie,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
In early 2020, Daniel Bachman stood at the edge of a creek in Falmouth, Virginia, recording the sounds of the insects chittering and buzzing around him.
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