chirr , also: churr

From the gathering darkness all around a grating sound had begun to build into a shrill chirr.

'I'm not just your Tower chirr, Kincaid.

The air seemed silent until I caught the sonorous hoot of an owl, the tat-tat-tat of a woodpecker, the chirr of a cricket.

The town was, except for the chirr and whisper of small animals and the tinkle of Tony Leominster's wind chimes, silent.

Contact calls are described as chirr or similar to Black-headed Gull keerrr; these calls are repeated quickly to form a rattling alarm call.

There was a call on East Fourth Street in the East Village, with its mash of people and chirr of sounds - a misbehaving lock on a leather goods store.

She could hear the hiss of the ventilators, the faint, distant hum of the power conduits, and the soft chirr and beep as the computer finished the last complex set of calculations and presented its results.

Or maybe they would buzz like stag beetles or chirr like cicadas amid those skeletal incarnations of pure, abstract functionality, automata able to crush, saw, shift, break, slice, accelerate, ram, and gulp fuel, their cylinders sobbing.

There is also a contact call described for as chirr chirr cheeeu for P. p. holomelaena and tseeu tseu tsss-ip for orientalis.

He tears open the wonderful bag of fireworks and then pauses for a moment, captivated by the summer night-the somnolent chirr of the crickets, the low, fragrant breeze that barely stirs the leaves of the trees at the edge of the woods, the almost unearthly radiance of the moon.