trill

Example Sentences

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Through evocative descriptions—the skylark’s trill “hovering in the quivering air,” or the sun rising over a “silvery, dew-thick cow meadow”—Ms. Haynes invites us to take part in the daily rhythms of our natural world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Under a starry sky in the Calakmul reserve, as unseen frogs chirp and insects trill, Medellín Legorreta patiently works to untangle a bat caught in a mist net.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 11, 2023

Spanish vowels overlap with Sindarin ones, and Spanish speakers already can trill their Rs with the best of elves.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2023

Music compositions by Eliza Thompson, the occasional trill of woodwinds between chapters, has the old-fashioned feel of a radio story hour, but sound design, which might have generated dimension and atmosphere throughout, is curiously absent.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

In Korean, there are no separate sounds for L and R, the sound is singular and without a baroque Spanish trill or roll.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee