trill

Example Sentences

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“Are you making up how to direct as you go along?” she trills to Godard in her Iowa-accented French.

From Los Angeles Times

The Cowardly Lion no longer trills about becoming king of the forest.

From Los Angeles Times

“He’s busy, he’s working, he doesn’t have time for me,” she trills exasperatedly in “My Man on Willpower,” “My slutty pajamas not tempting him in the least.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world,” she trilled.

From Salon

Flighty and magnetic, Oliver trills that his clique is “one big happy family,” using his faux-obliviousness to shield himself from being the bad guy.

From Los Angeles Times