trill
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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
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
My filly’s whinny, timid trill: I’m sitting by this icy rill, In wintry, frigid wild?
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
She must continue singing until she reached the difficult trill at the end of the aria, in order to show off the range and power of her voice.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing trill
"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
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"Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez
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