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Recent Examples of trill
Verb
Keep pounding, trilling, or skipping along waves of notes, and your hands take flight.—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025 The Volta Associates can be heard counting, trilling the letter R, and reciting Shakespeare.—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2018
Noun
There are many reasons to visit New Orleans, from po' boys filled with heaps of fried shrimp spilling out of pillowy soft French bread, the shrill trills of brass trumpets, and the constant bustle of revelers across the city.—Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025 That talent is led by Ross, a sumptuous performer with oodles of stage presence and the most buttery trills.—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trill
The whole montage was respectful and gracious, with a classical score, rather than a pop chipmunk warbling a sensitive ballad about dead people.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2025
Peggy Seeger’s 1957 recording of it is a brisk, warbling take with arpeggiated acoustic guitar — a classic example of the kind of carefree-songbird tunes from the early folk revival.
Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.
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Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
17 May 2025
Messi stepped out onto a balcony and waved to his worshippers, who chanted his name and captured the moment with their cell phones, similar to the kind of reception the Pope gets at the Vatican.
The sound chorused from Minnesota’s bench as Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert exited stage right after shining under the bright Hollywood lights Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
1 May 2025
These insects will mate and chorus for at least six weeks before the 17-year cycle starts again.
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Elizabeth Gamillo,
Discover Magazine,
13 May 2024
And since Joan herself, with that quavering soprano, is a fierce customer, famous in her own right, she’s done with being treated like Dylan’s accessory.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Dec. 2024
The reflections of the icebergs quavered in the water, which was blue to the edge of purple.
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