The cheeping stopped at once and the little fat bird was silent.

The tone changed to a more insistent cheeping, drawing attention to itself.

A moment later they heard the soft repetitive cheeping of the beacon.

A frenzied cheeping answered her, and the cover leaped again.

The world was filled with the shrill cheeping of sparrows.

She was following him to the stairs when she heard the cheeping sound that had caught her ear before.

When it stopped, there was a sharp, shrill, multitudinous cheeping.

Alan thought their horrid shrill cheeping would drive him mad.

Call a shrill cheeping, suggesting a young game bird.

They can be quite noisy, making various loud cheeping, mewing and grating calls.

He met Bunty on the stairs, coming up in haste to answer her fledgling's agitated cheeping.

Its strides were thunder against which the trolls' deep voices sounded like the cheeping of tree frogs.

The sun showed itself, weakly at first, then the cheeping of the hardy birds, who had borne winter's brunt, began.

'Burglar?' came a cheeping from the back bedroom.

They constantly utter a low cheeping or chirping contact call as they forage.

All but one of the apes drop into the sand, mourned by a single cheeping, increasingly frantic creature.

A muted cheeping from above.

He pressed the On button of the rad counter and listened to the faint cheeping of the machine.

Lord Pierrot hastily silences their querulous cheeping, dropping a cloak over them.

The cheeping abruptly stopped.

As he did so he kicked one of the wire cages and there was a pitiable cheeping from the chicks inside.

Surrounding cheeping and piping became drowned out as the noisy pillar of flame built itself up to an earth-shaking roar.

Creatures may live within -; small birds, ticking beetles, crickets: no cheeping, nor any active sounds here, just the passive sound of silence.

His only companion is a cheeping, fluttering bird with bright plumage on a ship filled with more lost souls.

In the spring, she liked to sit within the bower of the tree and listen to the frantic cheeping of the woodfinch's hungry chicks.

Now they were going to their rest, cheeping softly in the trees.

Before he could get back to his reading, the intercom cheeped again.

Her nestling was cheeping more loudly than he had that morning.

The switch clicked up into position and cheeped as the signal was sent.

"They cheep when a predator or another male grabs them," he explains.

One farmer said that it was "good for nothing but to raise cheeping squirrels on."

As birds cheeped, the host described his two-year battle to get the men to move.

It cheeped and muttered quietly, showing no more than a minor surface level.

Little green and blue birds were clustered around it, cheeping happily in the late afternoon light.

He lifted his head and cheeped for more.

He activated the sonic sensor, to cheep the location of things at him.

"They are cheeping for their mother," he reported.

Three little birds were flying around it, cheeping.

I heard a flutter in it and a baby mockingbird started cheeping anxiously.

Five minutes later, the alarm wakes him again, cheeping insistently like a mechanical bird.

The sparrow cheeped, and Tom knew that Del was screaming.

The bird trembled in Tom's hands, cheeping frantically, twisting its neck to look up into his face.

"You can't fire me," Han cheeped, having rehearsed his lines a hundred times.

No respectable bird sang with so much feeling, they cheeped one to another, and the wanderer had to move on.

A tang of cold hung in the air, and somewhere among the ruins a lone bird was cheeping.

As soon as Michaels disconnected, the phone cheeped again.

No one recognized the four women striding purposefully toward them until Tweeter cheeped again.

Small creatures flitted and cheeped in the brush and trees.

Zair cheeped and brushed his head against the Harper's chin.

Cheeping and croaking rose from thousands of unseen throats.

Two hours pass before she is awakened by a sound softer than a cheep.

Nestlings begin making a soft cheep at about a week of age.

Duke saved her from the error with a warning cheep.

I knew the lingo, but they hadn't let out so much as a cheep.

From inside the sick bay the cheeps of the wireless set began abruptly.

Each time it clicked back up into place, and the electric cheep told him the signal had been sent.

"One cheep and you'll get worse than a broken leg," I threatened.

The call is a series of quiet cheeps which become faster and higher-pitched.

Not a cheep out of her, he had marvelled.

A young woman with bright red lips and a high-pitched cheep of a voice flew at me.

I pulled over and had him get a couple of bottles of cheep wine.

Soon they heard a clucking sound and a chorus of "cheep!

In the woods about there was no sound, save for the sleepy cheep of awakened birds.

Not the day-old cheep of a smoke detector on the blink.

And yes, there are "no fries, cheeps," but who cares.

One cheep out of you and I'll mash you into a pulp.

She heard his heels clicking on the cheep tiled floors and then he was behind her.

A short cheep or chip is a regular contact call given by both sexes while foraging.

The violins were punctuated occasionally by a cheep from an interested bird.

They have a single note cheep call.

The cheeps still came from the wireless cabin.

They call in a comparatively softer lower note to the young, which respond with chicken-like cheep calls.

In straitened times, birds make a cheap (should that be cheep?)

That was probably Harding's last cheep before he ditched."