trill
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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
My filly’s whinny, timid trill: I’m sitting by this icy rill, In wintry, frigid wild?
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
It looked at them with two bright black eyes and, opening its mouth, which was pointed like a thorn, sent forth a little trill.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
Vocabulary lists containing trill
"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
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"Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez
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