How to Use trill in a Sentence

trill

noun

• She pronounces her r's with a trill.
• Kelly does the trills and the runs and all this kind of stuff.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• The ball pings against the sides of the machine and bells trill and lights flash.
  — Christian Livermore, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2022
• Gone is the trill of birdsong, the gentle rush of wind.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2020
• From a thicket of cattails came the trill of red-winged blackbirds.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• Shawn Mendes, the 22-year-old Canadian folk-pop singer with the velour trill, is a bard of puppy love.
  — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2020
• The piano player opened the the track with a trill of keys, leading the way for V to kick off the song’s iconic opening lines.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 16 June 2023
• Whales sing, toadfish hum, cod grunt, and bearded seals trill.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
• When Jansen got to Lucas Oil for the Lions' preseason game, the raspy trill was still there.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2022
• The only honking is that of Canadian geese, mixed with the trill of bird calls and patter of the garden fountain.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• The bird responds by opening its beak and releasing the liquid trill of a morning song.
  — Lizzie Pook, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
• Most of us know the trills and thrills of Lalo Schifrin’s original score, which remains the most exciting theme tune ever composed for TV.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• Male toads will gather in shallow water and call females with a high, clear trill — almost like a ringing noise — that lasts up to 30 seconds.
  — Dallas News, 2 May 2022
• What Lynn does to capture the listener by the throat, from its first words, is lower her already-famous high trill by an octave and find the metaphorical heart of a place that will never be the same.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
• The bandwidth of the trill at the end of the sparrows’ song is also key to communicating physical fitness to potential mates or rivals.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2020
• Birds can make an array of noises, from elegant trills to ear-piercing squawks—and nearly everything in between.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Great Hall to a cheering audience, who watched her trill some crystal-clear notes on a similar flute before bending over and busting out a mini-twerk to the crowd’s delight.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2022
• Against a long and attenuated trill of the viola, Mehretu’s backgrounds become a lurid green or mysterious blue and the black lines of the paintings start to look more querulous.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• The chirrup or trill greeting is a melodious sound that cats make when saying hello to preferred individuals.
  — Emily Blackwell, CNN, 18 Oct. 2022
• And while there's plenty of covetable items in that veritable sea of deals, there's another, more under the radar sale happening that is sure to tempt anyone who gets a trill from seeing the savings stack up.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 19 July 2023
• The book includes a fountain of birds based on another design from Hero’s Pneumatica, with the intermittent action of a network of siphons causing the birds to flutter and trill.
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021
• From rainforests and deserts to Arctic tundra and coral reefs, hear the howls, croaks, hums, trills, clicks, growls, and cries of animals in the wild, and see this rich symphony of sound made visible through real-time streaming spectrograms.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2023
• Baronb/Shutterstock) Animals from sheep to fur seals share a curious acoustic trait: Their calls feature a vibrato-like trill.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2017
• Campers venture out into the untrammeled waters for days without seeing another person or hearing anything but the soprano trill of a loon.
  — Jack Brook, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2020
• Her voice is lithe, elastic and effortlessly comic — her weird little flicks, trills and warbles earning delighted giggles from the audience.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Gilda displays every vocal artifice available to a soprano — impressively, even a real trill.
  — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
• Lawless then took inspiration from watching Arabic women performing a ululation vocal trill at a funeral.
  — Dominic Corry, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• She pronounces her r's with a trill.
• Kelly does the trills and the runs and all this kind of stuff.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• The ball pings against the sides of the machine and bells trill and lights flash.
  — Christian Livermore, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2022

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