Definition of "chirping" [chirp•ing]

• Present participle of chirp. (verb)
• An instance of chirping (noun)

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• "Listening to monkeys howling and birds chirping is much more pleasant than car horns honking and tires screeching."
• "The track I went with has some great strings - I really dig the Cello anyway, so when its used this way, with both pizzicato and bowed sounds, it gets under my skin - chirping birds, insects, and the solid yet shuffling beat to carry it through with this weirdly dark sense to it."
• ""They clapped their wings," said the tutor, "from the pain you put them to; and what you call chirping, were cries and lamentations."