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Recent Examples of trilled
Femme tunes trilled in the background.
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Kansas City Star,
29 May 2026
About 40 minutes away, real birds melodiously chirped and trilled outside its sister hotel, Es Figueral Nou, an 18th-century finca and former fig plantation set among vast agricultural fields.
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Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.
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Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Apr. 2026
My mother trilled vapidly over these mundane facts.
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Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
Kansas City Star,
29 May 2026
About 40 minutes away, real birds melodiously chirped and trilled outside its sister hotel, Es Figueral Nou, an 18th-century finca and former fig plantation set among vast agricultural fields.
—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.
—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Apr. 2026
My mother trilled vapidly over these mundane facts.
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Madhuri Vijay,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trilled
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Her distinctive voice has been Widowspeak’s emblem since the band first emerged, warbled like Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval over CB radio.
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The tawny owl’s dark release of song quavered from the pine wood.
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The Norwegians chanted and danced a conga line throughout the game — even as Swanson’s first homer landed a few hundred feet to their left.
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Guerrero, as fans chanted his name over and over as if willing him to hit his first homer at Rogers Centre this year, still chased pitches down and away.
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“Trilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trilled. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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