skirl

Example Sentences

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Belief swirled like the skirl of the bagpipes.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Bringing Scotland to the Pacific Northwest for over 75 years through the skirl o’ the Pipes and Drums, the beauty of Highland Dancing, the brawn of Scottish athletics, and the sharing of clan history!

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2024

"It had all the strange, wild, emotional force of the skirl of a bagpipe," wrote Herbert Warren Wind.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 13, 2020

The skirl also got to Lily Cunningham, a pixie of a 13-year-old who stood beside the evening’s emcee, Arthur McAra, clutching her three-quarter-sized bagpipe.

From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2017

Voices would skirl up in the darkness: one person singing a lullaby, then another person, until everyone was asleep.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann