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Recent Examples of trill
Verb
Keep pounding, trilling, or skipping along waves of notes, and your hands take flight.—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025 The Volta Associates can be heard counting, trilling the letter R, and reciting Shakespeare.—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2018
Noun
The noises of all the organisms living together in a particular place—the trill of birdsong, thrum of insect wings, rustle of leaves, cacophony of yips, or a lonely midnight howl—make up that setting’s biophony, an audio signature of life.—The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2025 This was followed by a post-test session in which the pianists played the chord trill twice for five seconds, as quickly and accurately as possible.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trill
The whole montage was respectful and gracious, with a classical score, rather than a pop chipmunk warbling a sensitive ballad about dead people.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2025
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.
These insects will mate and chorus for at least six weeks before the 17-year cycle starts again.
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Elizabeth Gamillo,
Discover Magazine,
13 May 2024
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The Broods Could Sound like Sirens
Male cicadas will chorus to their hearts’ content in the spring and summer of 2024.
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Elizabeth Gamillo,
Discover Magazine,
30 Apr. 2024
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.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Dec. 2024
The reflections of the icebergs quavered in the water, which was blue to the edge of purple.
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