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How to use skirl in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word skirl? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
While the skirl of bagpipes gets his blood pumping, it is nothing compared to the roar of a football crowd.
Before the workers walked through the factory gates to the skirl of pipes, they were addressed by union officials.
But there should be more to it than the skirl of the bagpipe and the swirl of the plaid.
The water is still, yachts bob gently at anchor, and sea-gulls skirl through the sky.
At midnight he led all of us up and down the A64 to the skirl of the pipes, a memorable experience.
The skirl of the bagpipes provided a stirring backdrop, and his skin tingled with excitement.
And the stuttering, pseudo-Latino skirl of One More Tequila is entirely the wrong choice to close such an otherwise harmless record.
At that moment, from the field the fox has just left, there's the skirl of a hunting horn.
Not a car horn or police siren could be heard amid the skirl of the pipes of the annual Tartan Day celebrations.
And for your wedding video, the stirring beat of Caledonian wind and rain mingled with the skirl of pipes will create a soundtrack worthy of Braveheart.
The demotic poetry of Robert Burns or the skirl of bagpipes at Highland gatherings are easily appreciated by immigrants.
Here, overlooking the harbor in an untried fortress, kilted pipers, drummers and dancers perform the bagpipe skirl of the islands' pipe band.
Inside the Halifax Citadel the sounds of a modern bustling port city are exchanged for the crack of rifle-fire and the skirl of bagpipes.
There's something about the skirl of a hundred pipers at sunset.
It was a great result and I gave a special skirl on the pipes.
Charlie Kennedy needs to give his pipes a skirl and lead the charge.
Instead, with the skirl of the bagpipes and a thumping bass beat, on comes Flower of Scotland and we sing along as lustily as if we are at Murrayfield.
To the skirl of the pipes, drummer Bronco was laid to rest last week as pals from the fire department pipe band shed tears.
The skirl of bagpipes, tartan kilts, the odd Saltire waved in the air, the audience clapping as though they were at a boisterous Highland ceilidh.
I thrill to the skirl of the bagpipes and the whump, whump, whump of the big bass drums.
Examples from Classical Literature
He leaned from the window and the skirl of a police whistle split the stillness of the night.
Finn now gave a skirl that frightened the giant, as coming from such a youngster as he was represented to be.
Cannot one hear the skirl of the pipes amid that din of cannon and musketry?
Shriller than the scream of shells above them was the skirl of pipes, going with them.
It is impossible to describe the effect of the skirl of those pipes that day.
Then a skirl of laughter, the piercingness of which, near to, could only be guessed at.
For wi' the bang and the skirl the thing had clean disappeared.
Dancing was engaged in around the bonfire to the skirl of the philabeg.
And it was remarkit by the sodgers that she gied but the ae skirl.
And it was remarked by the sodgers that she gied but the ae skirl.
The skirl of the pipes may sound wonderful in the hands of experts but it's a notoriously difficult instrument to learn.
The roll of drum, call of trumpet, skirl of pipes, did not lack.
Sir Richard Branson wore a kilt and flew into Edinburgh to the skirl of bagpipes this week for the launch of Little Red, Virgin Atlantic's first domestic service.
The music will be appropriate Scottish folk and the skirl of the bagpipes.
The main character is a thirteen-year-old boy called Kim who, after his mother's death, is brought to live in her ancestral home of Skirl.
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