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• Even when you become big and famous, you still gotta keep it trill.From the entry keep it trill
• The bird's song was full of trills and flutters.From the entry flutter
• My laugh is a light, gentle trill, perfectly tuned to unfret him immediately.2008, Patricia A. Kuess, Slather. From the entry unfret
• The trill of her purr echoed inside his mouth when he kissed her again.2006, Brenda Williamson, Wolverton Blood, page 53. From the entry purr
• "Physical constraints of the human body are easy to see: there are no linguo-nasal trills, for example."1984, William E. Rutherford, Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition: Containing the […]. From the entry linguo-nasal
• “He's completely turned them around in less than a year,” Lise trilled, “and never missed Friday afternoon Bible study.”2018, Michael Andreoni, The Window Is a Mirror, Livonia, MI: BHC Press, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry ceo
• Normally, she trilled with laughter when he used those old Norn Iron turns of phrase from his Belfast boyhood.2017 March 9, Marnie Riches, Born Bad, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN. From the entry Norn Iron
• She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings.2009 June 26, Alastair Macaulay, “Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart”, in New York Times. From the entry tapping
• American toads still fill spring nights with prolonged chirrings, while tree-frogs trill from perches in trees and shrubs.2008, Cornelia F. Mutel, The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa, page 166. From the entry chirring
• “Trapeze” begins with pizzicatos that plunge into a circuslike cacophony with rapid trills, busy, clashing textures and motion in every direction.2007 May 7, Vivien Schweitzer, “Players With No Conductor and, Increasingly, With No Fear”, in New York Times. From the entry pizzicato
• Rhotics can be realized as flaps, taps, trills (uvular, coronal or bilabial), or as assibilated or fricative variants.1997, Eulàlia Bonet, Joan Mascarò, “On the representation of contrasting rhotics”, in Fernando Martínez-Gil, Alfonso Morales-Front…. From the entry rhotic
• But most Israeli mechanics say "breaks," with the "r" sound dutifully transformed from the American dog-barking noise to an upscale Frenchlike trill.2000, Adam M Garfinkle, Politics and society in modern Israel: myths and realities. From the entry dutifully
• Tiny Tim, who trilled his way to fame with his high‐pitched rendition of “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” has named his daughter, born last Monday, Tulip Victoria Khaury.1971 May 15, Albin Krebs, “Notes on People”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry tulip
• All she knows about food, Mrs Fry, is how to feed her own fat face!" Brownie the little echo trilled, "That's why she's such a pudsey!"1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Melbourne: Angus & Robertson, page 16. From the entry pudsy

Meaning of trill

1. noun A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
2. noun A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
3. noun A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.

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Questions about trill in a sentence

How do you use trill in a sentence?

Trill is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Even when you become big and famous, you still gotta keep it trill.”

What is a short sentence with trill?

“to trill a note, or the letter r”

What does trill mean?

Trill means a rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.