chirren
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?"
From Time Magazine Archive
“What Angelo’s gonna do if he gets himself kicked off the force? And him with three chirren to support.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
The ringing of the hammer stopped and the smithy rushed out to see what had his chirren raising such a fuss.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ma Charles went on tsk-tsking about “these chirren today.”
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
But some chirren got on after us and he didn’t say nothing to ’em!
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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