| As hundreds of firefighters raced to save homes and keep the 15,700-acre fire from leaping over highways, tanker planes and helicopters chirred through the sky like dragonflies, dropping water and retardant. |
| They whirred, clicked, chirred and rattled till she dumped the whole teeming mass of them on the bed. |
| Catching a breath she inched forward and chirred to herself. |
| Beside me the Sathe muttered and chirred in her sleep, in waking. |
| The animals of the forest were largely quiet, and the locusts chirred intermittently. |
