trill

Example Sentences

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Actors are special, this Paul believes; he can hear it in a nurse’s excited trill when she reveals to him his past job.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 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

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

“Yes, madam. The robin was perky today. He sang quite a trill against one of the blackbirds who was greedy.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White