Example Sentences

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One evening he was walking with his father in the garden, where the sparrows were twittering so loudly in one of the trees that you couldn't hear yourself think.

From Time Magazine Archive

Outside, the birds were twittering loudly as if they'd been awake for hours.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Linda Cruz looked up from the magazine they were twittering over and gave me a small, polite smile.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

The birds were twittering and the breeze was blowing and you could smell the hay in the field next to us waving in the heat.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Several of the women were laughing at him indulgently, the children were twittering with pleasure.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya