trilled
Example Sentences
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“Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world,” she trilled.
From Salon • Aug. 22, 2025
The trilled R connection to roughness appeared across speakers of all languages regardless of whether the sound was used in that language or not.
From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024
As if rejoicing about the extra-wet weather, male gray tree frogs trilled their mating call on overtime this challenging season.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023
On the first day, Modjeska trilled that her compatriots were “anticipating great joy from the touch of Mother Earth.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023
Of course this aria would be written by someone with this name, the very utterance of which slays me—the trilled rr and knife-blade-between-the-teeth ss in his name.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
