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Recent Examples of trill
Brian Seibert, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Down the hall from the hedgehog, staff fed trilling birds — no bigger than the palm of a hand — with tweezers and syringes.
—Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
Other recordings of vocal folk music are interspersed in the brooding piece filled with aching pauses, startling trills and echoes.
—Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Percussive footwork was multiplied in tight unison, groups moved in handsome lines and circles, castanets trilled and soloists broke out in displays of expertise.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Down the hall from the hedgehog, staff fed trilling birds — no bigger than the palm of a hand — with tweezers and syringes.
—Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
Noun
Conversely, the title track that closes the album really is Bjork-like, with its upturned vocal trills and harp/orchestral sounds.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
Other recordings of vocal folk music are interspersed in the brooding piece filled with aching pauses, startling trills and echoes.
—Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2024
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To lend the appearance of vitality, junk cars driven by mannequins populated the parking lot to the backdrop of warbling holiday tapes played on low-fidelity loudspeakers.Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024
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Phoenix, who doesn’t seem accustomed to singing, much less very interested in it, is forced to warble his way through song numbers while Gaga refuses to lay down a dichotomy between what’s real versus fantasy concerning her character’s musical talents.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 17 Dec. 2024
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But soon the crowd was back to dancing, clapping and chanting.Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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Outside the courthouse, small groups of pro- and anti-Netanyahu demonstrators are chanting from opposite sides of a police barrier.NBC News, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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These insects will mate and chorus for at least six weeks before the 17-year cycle starts again.Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2024
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Read More: The 2024 Cicada Emergence Is Coming, Here’s Everything to Know The Broods Could Sound like Sirens Male cicadas will chorus to their hearts’ content in the spring and summer of 2024.Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024
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And since Joan herself, with that quavering soprano, is a fierce customer, famous in her own right, she’s done with being treated like Dylan’s accessory.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
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The reflections of the icebergs quavered in the water, which was blue to the edge of purple.Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Trill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trill. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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