I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A mockingbird trilled from atop a telephone pole.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At five o'clock the phone set on the tailgate of the Range Rover trilled.
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In the brush warblers and finches are trilling again; raspberries glisten; the gulls are laughing.
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Johnson was reading a local newspaper he had bought at the Frankenwald service station when his phone trilled discreetly.
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The bird had stopped tick-ticking and was trilling away cheerfully.
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The phone on Sam McCready's desk trilled at midday.
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The telephones in Sly's office complex did not trill , they rang.
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Two hours later I was woken by men whistling, clicking, trilling and hooting their music to the flocks.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A trill of song from somewhere outside the trench.
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From behind the curtain the tuning-up sounds, trumpet runs, and flute trills, were becoming more clamorous.
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From within, I catch the trill of a Pogues song.