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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
skirl .
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Examples
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The flame was carried off the plane in a miner's lantern by Gregor Robertson, mayor of Vancouver: the Host City of the Games, as the stirring skirls of a solo bagpiper filled the early morning air.
Finding "Truth" a challenge, VANOC opts for fantasy Dave 2009
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Ai finkso, it must be hard to do greshun turns and skwirly whirls and scottish skirls in a queeny gown.
Boss cat is giving you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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The flame was carried off the plane in a miner's lantern by Gregor Robertson, mayor of Vancouver: the Host City of the Games, as the stirring skirls of a solo bagpiper filled the early morning air.
Archive 2009-11-01 Alison 2009
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“But she threeps to keep on a black fause-face, and skirls if we offer to take it away.”
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And again when the high, bittersweet skirls of an NYPD piper's "Danny Boy" blew off the headstones and frozen ground.
Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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Naturally enough, this led to the bagpipes, with which he skirls _piobaireachd_ Scots tunes.
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What I see, through different sensors, is the X-radiation; what I snuff is a sharp breath of neutrinos mingled with the gale that streams from the other; I swim in an intricate interplay of force-fields, balancing, thrusting, while they caress me; I listen to the skirls and drones, the murmurs and melodies of a universe.
Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981
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There was a layer of blue smoke above their heads that broke into skirls as various individuals left one group to join another.
The Fourth R George Oliver Smith 1946
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The war hymn is sheer rowdyism; the great broad melody which forms part of the prayer, and on which the introduction of the overture is based, stands out from a weltering sea of orchestral bangs, noises and screams and skirls of the strings.
Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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The war hymn is sheer rowdyism; the great broad melody which forms part of the prayer, and on which the introduction of the overture is based, stands out from a weltering sea of orchestral bangs, noises and screams and skirls of the strings.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891
Louises commented on the word skirls
It rained, continuously, cold skirls blown and dashed by an icy wind. Brollies dislocated. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 23, 2012