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
  • Did your trademark chirpy sense of humor ever desert you?
    David Furst, National Geographic, 19 June 2016
  • Did your trademark chirpy sense of humor ever desert you?
    National Geographic, 19 June 2016
  • After controlling the race from start to finish, Verstappen was in a chirpy mood again.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • The pair was surprisingly chirpy, even as rain began to fall steadily.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • His voice is chirpy-thin, making his stories of debauched after-hours excess sound like child’s play.
    New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • People cheerily list their favourite movies and hope for the best, but darkness simmers beneath the chirpy surface.
    Jacqueline Alnes, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • As the team behind Critter Bitters discovered, the chirpy creatures taste great in cocktails as well.
    Sabrina Sucato, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
  • When a delivery is complete, the robot celebrates with a swivel dance and chirpy sounds.
    Nora Walsh, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • There was Alice, a chirpy journalist, and her best friend, Dana, a repressed tennis player.
    Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Now, those 10 Senators have been fairly chirpy about feeling burned.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The cover has a chirpy visual style that evokes the opening credits of an early-‘60s film (think The Pink Panther), cut-and-paste that involves actual scissors and paper.
    Karl Vick, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • It’s converted back-and-forth threads into chirpy instant messages.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 24 June 2020
  • Keane the passionate, hard-working one with the fun celebrations and chirpy nature; Berbatov the aloof, laid-back one who could make any movement on the pitch seem effortless.
    SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • There is no chirpy greeting, no acknowledgment of being observed at all.
    New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • After a woeful Friday performance, the offense responded with action (more good plays) and words (out-chirping the chirpy 49ers).
    Ryan O'Halloran, The Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2019
  • 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 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
  • The reverent Incarnation episode of the Credo includes a chirpy little organ part, which was played on a small cabinet organ.
    Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Relentlessly chirpy, the noisy miner blasts the alarm before dawn alongside the screeching and flapping of rainbow lorikeets, parrots brighter than Magic Markers and that argue like toddlers.
    New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019

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