churr
IPA: tʃˈɝ
noun
- A low vocal sound made by some birds.
- Alternative spelling of chirr (“insect sound”) [The trilled sound made by an insect.]
verb
- To make the low vocal sound of some birds.
- Alternative spelling of chirr (“to make an insect sound”) [(intransitive) To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).]
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Examples of "churr" in Sentences
- This woodpecker's voice is a rolling churr sound.
- This woodpecker's voice is a rolling 'churr' sound.
- February 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm book cud be litter a churr
- Among its calls in Tanzania are wi wi wi wi wi and a short churr .
- It swings beneath the holder, calling tee, tee, tee or a scolding churr.
- Even the grasshoppers ceased their churr in the trees — only a window rattled somewhere.
- They were cutting the grass on the tennis court below; he heard the soft churr of the mower.
- With a satisfied little churr, the baby collapsed on Leryn's feet, staring adoringly up at him.
- The bird lands on the roof and begins to churr, giving a “sensible vibration to the whole building.”
- Some know her as the night-jar, others as the fern-owl, and still others designate her as the eve-churr.
- Only a cricket from time to time gave a cautious churr, and a mouse was scratching somewhere; he could hear his own breathing.
- Then we have the loud cry of francolins, the “pumpuru, pumpuru” of turtle-doves, and the “chiken, chiken, chik, churr, churr” of the honey-guide.
- Dragon was yet a long way off; though indeed it must be allowed that flight, when Chwangtse wrote and Ch'u Yuan sung, was surprised with the far churr of startling wings under the stars.
- Here and there, both on the river and in the fields, other lights were glimmering, whether close at hand or far away, the eye could not distinguish; they shrank together, then suddenly lengthened out into great blurs of light; grasshoppers innumerable kept up an unceasing churr, persistent as the frogs of the Pontine marshes; and across the cloudless, but dark lowering sky floated from time to time the cries of unseen birds.
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