Sentence examples for trill from inspiring English sources

"We are all in this together" trill Conservatives.

Boys as young as six chant for the regime to fall as they play in the street and as mobile ringtones trill "Ya Heef", a song about the protest that started in Deraa and spread around the country.The checkpoints are not the only evidence of the new people-led society.

The Voice began to trill with incipient madness, to echo itself, to break into exquisitely wild arpeggios and cadenzas, until it soared to a D flat of utter despair.

The distinction between a trill and a tap is used in Spanish to distinguish between words such as perro, meaning "dog," and pero, meaning "but".

Some are given as single notes, others as series in a trill, a rattle, or a hooting, and still others as a cacophony or medley of notes.

The preface of another collection, first published in 1627, again gives information of great value to the interpretation of Baroque instrumental music: "Play the opening of a toccata slowly and arpeggiando.… If one hand has a trill, while the other plays a passage, do not play note against note, but play the trill rapidly and the other expressively".

The r was probably a tongue trill during the Classical period, but there is earlier evidence that in some positions it may have been a fricative or a flap.

The song of most tree crickets is a long trill.

Today Lowland Scots trill their r's, shorten vowels, and simplify diphthongs.

Though the best songsters may be true songbirds, some birds of other groups have pleasing or musical utterances, like the quavering trill of the screech owl and the cheery whistle of the bobwhite quail.

There are more than 30 techniques employed in performance each with its own descriptive term including yin (slow trill), rou (quick trill), chuo (upward portamento [pitch bending]) and zhu (downward portamento).