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

After he was led to the lockup, a band of bagpipers skirled round the building playing a composition in his honor, The Unjust Incarceration.

From Time Magazine Archive

As they drove off in a crystal coach, bagpipers skirled a pibroch, and the great bells pealed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the darkness was closing in on his family; now the evil music filled the night, hung over the mangroves, skirled in the wave beat.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck