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Recent Examples of trill
IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2018
Any minute now, the mockingbird will trill at me to go to bed.
—Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
And then there was the noise — a clamor of cheeps, trills, and squawks.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 3 Jan. 2025
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Verb
The Volta Associates can be heard counting, trilling the letter R, and reciting Shakespeare.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2018
Any minute now, the mockingbird will trill at me to go to bed.
—Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
Noun
Different groups have distinct dialects, with trills varying by length and frequency.
—Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
And then there was the noise — a clamor of cheeps, trills, and squawks.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trill
Verb
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The whole montage was respectful and gracious, with a classical score, rather than a pop chipmunk warbling a sensitive ballad about dead people.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2025
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Peggy Seeger’s 1957 recording of it is a brisk, warbling take with arpeggiated acoustic guitar — a classic example of the kind of carefree-songbird tunes from the early folk revival.—
Ben Sisario,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Hundreds of people gathered at the corner of Southwest 177th Avenue and 12th Street, holding signs and chanting outside the overcrowded Krome Detention Center entrance on Saturday.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2025
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Dozens of protesters swarmed the courthouse Friday morning, waving flags, holding signs and chanting outside the building.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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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
Verb
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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 2 Apr. 2025.
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