(1) 'My gosh,' she chirruped.

(2) I woke up to the sound of larks chirruping.

(3) A dozen nearby sparrows chirruped back.

(4) Meadow pipits flitted across the grass and skylarks chirruped.

(5) A cricket chirruped suddenly in the tall grass by his ear.

(6) They cheered when Peter's wife threw his incessantly chirruping portable phone out of the window.

(7) I chirruped to the horse, and he quickened his pace.

(8) They were probably no wiser than a cricket's chirrup.

(9) The markets now resemble those nesting chicks that chirrup constantly for their parents to feed them. They gorge on a daily diet of supposedly important economic data.

(10) Numerous kinds of insects group themselves and chirrup , in the fields and the golden sunshine.

(11) She was drinking her tea, making a comfortable watery chirrup as her long upper lip drew the tea into her mouth.

(12) There was a hiss over the PA, followed by the chirruping of recorded birdsong.

(13) In summer, the little bungalows ring to the cheerful chirrup of hedge-clipper, budgies and Terry Wogan.

(14) Normally one of the busiest – and noisiest – trunk roads in China, now the only sound that can be heard is the chirrup of the crickets in the nearby wheatfields.

(15) To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup.