How to Use chirpy in a Sentence

chirpy

adjective
  • Beats like these — soft shuffles with chirpy melodies — suit him the most neatly.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020
  • The body includes chirpy and perky acidity and strong flavors of blue fruit.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • An Uber driver in Utah had a rather chirpy passenger last week.
    — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2019
  • The pair was surprisingly chirpy, even as rain began to fall steadily.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
  • His voice is chirpy-thin, making his stories of debauched after-hours excess sound like child’s play.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • It’s converted back-and-forth threads into chirpy instant messages.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 24 June 2020
  • There is no chirpy greeting, no acknowledgment of being observed at all.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • When a delivery is complete, the robot celebrates with a swivel dance and chirpy sounds.
    — Nora Walsh, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Now, those 10 Senators have been fairly chirpy about feeling burned.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 12 Apr. 2021
  • After controlling the race from start to finish, Verstappen was in a chirpy mood again.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • People cheerily list their favourite movies and hope for the best, but darkness simmers beneath the chirpy surface.
    — Jacqueline Alnes, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2019
  • After New Year’s our mother dumps it, with all the glossy families and chirpy letters, in the trash.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • A number of the furnishings—chairs, mostly, and one of the friendlier sofas—sometimes call out chirpy greetings.
    — Michelle Slatalla, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2020
  • In a notably chirpy and cheerful genre, how many musicals feature a star character who is mentally ill?
    — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The light is still red as a seemingly chirpy, clueless couple pulls alongside her in a beat-up minivan, seeking directions.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
  • There was Alice, a chirpy journalist, and her best friend, Dana, a repressed tennis player.
    — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
  • This looks like the love child of a feather duster and a sea urchin — and the chirpy pink packaging is written entirely in Japanese.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 9 Dec. 2017
  • As the team behind Critter Bitters discovered, the chirpy creatures taste great in cocktails as well.
    — Sabrina Sucato, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
  • Sheila ditches her identity as a devoted political wife to be a chirpy exercise-video star.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 20 June 2021
  • Parton gets a little earthy at times, but her candor, combined with her unique, chirpy voice, is entertaining – even for those who are not fans of country music.
    — Rochelle M. O’Gorman, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Trillions of chirpy, red-eyed periodical cicadas emerged from underground in a rare double emergence event.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
  • At the mid-ship welcome party, Minnie invited us all to dance as chirpy tunes blared over the speakers and dads hoisted their little ones on their shoulders.
    — Brie Schwartz, Country Living, 13 Sep. 2018
  • The result was maniacally bubbly, a giddy counterpoint of chirpy melodies that don’t quite line up, but happily grind away at each other.
    — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 June 2018
  • Her music is chirpy and kinetic, but weird chords and nervous bits rustling in the orchestra suggest that Josephine fears that his plan to enlist is dangerous.
    — New York Times, 13 June 2018
  • And things continue in the same vein inside with the smiling service and owner Kit Kemp’s signature chirpy clashing prints.
    — Laura Goulden, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Despite lines that are initially chatty and chirpy, Corden shows how bumptious his character really is.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 26 June 2024
  • The games provided a structure the rest of life seemed to lack and rewarded his effort with prompt recognition, from cascades of virtual coins to chirpy musical salutes.
    — John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • Kimberly has a deadbeat drunk for a dad (Steven Boyer) and a chirpy narcissist for a mom (Alli Mauzey).
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
  • On last week’s episode, Thede played a croaking spelling-bee host, a chirpy morning-show meteorologist and a peacocking art-school student.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • We passengers sat through the same safety briefing, which consisted mostly of a chirpy and enthusiastic video that lasted less than 5 minutes.
    — Eric Adams, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2018

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