trill

Example Sentences

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But enlisting Peter Cetera to trill sweetly behind him as he sneers is A+ record-making.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

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

“Later, I would use it to trill long at the top of the keyboard in the Liszt First Concerto,” he writes, nonchalantly.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023

My filly’s whinny, timid trill: I’m sitting by this icy rill, In wintry, frigid wild?

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022

Then in the farthest distance we heard a trill.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck