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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Beyond the open window, where birds are twittering in the overhanging ivy, an English landscape of meadow and woodland, hills and hamlets, rolls far in the sunshine of a June morning.
From The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada by William Murray Graydon
The sun shines brightly; the snow is soft and beginning to sink down; the snow-birds are twittering about, and the noise of shouting and of the blows of the axe echoes far and wide.
From New National Fourth Reader by Charles J. Barnes
The little birds are twittering all about, in wisteria, in oranges; and over on the hillside, by the cherokee roses, there was a mocking bird that hailed the dawn, or its promise, an hour ago.
From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Louise Herrick Wall
A colony of swallows have established their nests among the queer old carvings and gnome-like faces, and are twittering in and out, superintending their domestic arrangements.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The birds are twittering loudly as they build their nests in the blossom-laden trees, the grass is starred with the first dandelions.
From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Ossip Schubin
