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How to use chirp in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Chirp means a short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect. Example: “The liquid chirps heard in the short song of an Omao.”

More sentences with chirp

  • The liquid chirps heard in the short song of an Omao.2018, Les Beletsky, Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song, page 142. From the entry omao
  • The tiny bird chirped again and shot away, Rossamünd losing sight of it in the thick foliage.2010, D.M. Cornish, The Foundling's Tale, Part Two. From the entry sparrowling
  • Finally, and most likely, the author was simply an obsessive idiosyncratic paramaniac chirping like a mad canary.2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry paramaniac
  • But nope, in poker there is a thing called chirping chips.2006, Rick Gadziola, Drawing Dead. From the entry chirping chips
  • No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.1999, Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, Bard, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry tweep
  • Now raspberries grow above me, On a rocking twig of a sloebush a robin chirps.1995, Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry sloebush
  • Then all was silent, save a bird that chirped as it sat on a box tree nearby.1922, L. M. Zimmerman, For Love's Sake, page 130. From the entry blithesomely
  • In the canopy, friendly birds (not the desperate, demented scavengers that sometimes overflew the plains) chirped and laboured on their nests.2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 193. From the entry overfly
  • No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.2012, Susan St. Francis, A Tale of the Bug Fairies. From the entry songer
  • The borogove let out a quiet chirp.2006, David Brown, Kara Willey, The Worlds of Naughtenny Moore, →ISBN. From the entry borogove
  • “Marks & Sparks,” chirped the duchess, uttering the nickname all British folk use to identify the famous low-price store.1988 March 4, Betty Goodwin, “Fashion 88: Fergie [i.e., Sarah, Duchess of York]’s Look in L.A.: Flair Without Fuss”, in Los Angeles Times…. From the entry Marks & Sparks
  • No bird chirping or leaves chattering.2014, Jonathan Garmon, The Legend of Wolves. From the entry leaveless
  • We needed to hear the birds chirping, the eaglehawk crying out something from the thermals high above, but the eery silence lingered on.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 412. From the entry eaglehawk
  • Sensing victory, the pro-circ enthusiasts gleefully chirped it meant that “circumcised men have more fun,” are more creative, and have a more expansive libido.2002, Terri Hamilton, Skin Flutes & Velvet Gloves: A Collection of Facts and Fancies, Legends and Oddities About the Body's Private Parts…. From the entry pro-circ
  • The trick with full deramp processing is to mix the echo with a replica of the transmitted chirp signal rather than with a fixed frequency tone (figure 4).2012, Robin A. Vaughan, Microwave Remote Sensing for Oceanographic and Marine Weather-Forecast Models, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry deramp
  • From the palm of her hand, Farah's iPhone binked and chirped once every minute or so with calls or text messages, but she was ignoring them.2011, Rod Kierkegaard, Vicki Keire, The Department of Magic. From the entry bink
  • Prone behind a parka squirrel's mound, the Eskimo would thrust up his forearm with fist doubled to imitate a squirrel, at the same time chirping like an alarmed squirrel.2001, Larry Kaniut, Bear Tales for the Ages: From Alaska and Beyond, →ISBN, page 121. From the entry parka squirrel
  • Sparrows merrily chirped in the trees that shaded a playgroundful of tots and mothers and she crossed to the hospital not to have her baby but lose it.1980, Eliot Wagner, My America!, New York, N.Y.: Kenan Press, →ISBN, page 392. From the entry playgroundful
  • All this psychic stuff is not." "No doubt you have good grounds for your views," chirped the mischievous Millworthy, a mild youth with a velvety manner.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry velvety

Meaning of chirp

  1. noun A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
  2. noun A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse; the quality of having a such a variation in frequency.
  3. verb To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.

Full definition of chirp

Questions about chirp in a sentence

How do you use chirp in a sentence?
Chirp is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The liquid chirps heard in the short song of an Omao.”
What is a short sentence with chirp?
“No bird chirping or leaves chattering.”
What does chirp mean?
Chirp means a short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chirp (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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