twitter
verb (used without object)
to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
are twittering
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present progressiveof twitter.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Somehow we feel the birds are twittering as they go to bed and the flowers are nodding their heads, they are so sleepy.
From The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures by Lorinda Munson Bryant
The sun is high in the heavens; the birds are twittering and preening their soft feathers in the yellow light that Phœbus flings broadcast upon the loving earth.
From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess
Only the birds and squirrels show any life or spirit; the former are twittering above my head, courting, it may be, or possibly discussing some detail of household economy.
From How to Cook Husbands by Elizabeth Strong Worthington
Within a few hours of the tragedy they are twittering gaily to one another, and in a wonderfully short space of time a new clutch of eggs replaces the old one.
From Birds of the Indian Hills by Douglas Dewar
The sunshine showers across the grain, And the bluebird trills in the orchard tree; And in and out, when the eaves drip rain, The swallows are twittering ceaselessly.
From Graded Memory Selections by Charles C. Hughes
