skirl
verb (used without object)
to play the bagpipe.
skirled
Example Sentences
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Then the bagpipes skirled, and the coffin was loaded into the hearse and borne away for a private burial.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2014
A bagpiper skirled "Amazing Grace," wreaths were laid and a bugler played "Taps."
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2014
Then, while a pipe band skirled The Hundred Pipers and onlookers showered them with rose petals, the first of 90,000 Pakistani prisoners, held in India since the 1971 war, stepped across the border to freedom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outside the town hall of Hamilton, a Lowlands town of 47,341, the bagpipes skirled We Shall Overcome.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Last dance!” someone called, and the music skirled up into something stately and slow and final.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
