I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bird chirps/twitters (= makes short high sounds )
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Birds chirped to one another from different branches of the tree.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birds twitter outside the open window as the nuns scrutinise each graph and diligently take notes.
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Let's hope it helps Rita see Anthony for the twittering twerp he is.
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Near-by, across the river, a lark had begun to twitter and climb.
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On the video footage, which was shot by investigators the spring after the nightmare, birds twitter .
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The larks went up, twittering in the scented air above the down.
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They were very low, twittering all round us, all flying in the same direction, low and happy.
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When the electronic ambience washed in, the saxophone and drums twittered anxiously.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Little Billy heard him talking to the robin in a kind of curious twitter .
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Usually rather subdued piping or twittering calls, flocks often keeping up a conversational twitter.