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Example sentences for "trolled"

Lexicographically close words:
trois; troisieme; troit; trolds; troll; trolley; trolleys; trolling; trollop; trollops
  1. It trolled harshly up the hillside, giving out strange echoes which confused the melody he essayed.

  2. Their long, sharp muzzles were thrown up towards the starlit heavens, and their voices trolled drearily from their cavernous throats, thrilling the air and arousing the mountain echoes.

  3. Trolled out five miles, then up to the west end.

  4. For an hour I trolled through this whirlpool of flying spray and twisting tarpon, with many a salty drop on my face, hearing all around me the whipping crash of breaking water.

  5. During those twenty-one days we had trolled fifteen hundred miles, altogether, up and down that twenty-five-mile coast of rugged Clemente.

  6. We went off Seal Rocks and trolled about five miles out.

  7. We got going again, and had scarce trolled a hundred yards when I saw something my companions missed.

  8. On this memorable day I had scarcely trolled half a mile out into the Stream before I felt that inexplicable rap at my bait which swordfish and sailfish make with their bills.

  9. Trolled out about six miles and all around.

  10. We trolled up the river and down, across from one rush-lined lily-padded shore to the other, for miles and miles with never a strike.

  11. Nor am I likely to forget my disappointment when he totally ignored the flying-fish bait we trolled before him.

  12. Captain Dan finally trolled our baits through one school, which sank without rewarding us with a strike.

  13. Trolled with kite up to the Isthmus and back.

  14. We did our best to get to the exact spot where he came up, then slowed down and trolled over the place.

  15. And we had trolled round these fish in every conceivable way.

  16. We trolled on, and all of a sudden raised a school of sailfish.

  17. But since the Folly Bay cannery never opened until the fish ran to greater size and number, the fishermen, chafing against inaction after an idle winter, took a chance and trolled for Jack MacRae.

  18. Then a rude ditty trolled from some not unskilful performer.

  19. He could twang the guitar, and had at times made scraps of verse, which he trolled to many a damsel's ear, but to little purpose hitherto.

  20. But even Herod doubted if Jesus was con- trolled by the sainted preacher.

  21. We trolled that day, and caught one large fish like a salmon,--it probably was a land-locked one.

  22. We trolled when moving, catching white fish and some salmon, proving that no one need starve there at that time of the year.

  23. Riccio, meanwhile, trolled off, in his mellow southern voice, a few notes of an Italian drinking song.

  24. Blessings, jokes, and curses trolled off the rascal's lips with a volubility which caused his Irish audience to shout with laughter, but which were quite beyond a cockney.

  25. Patsey, Minny, and Katey have made friends with the little English people upstairs; the elder of whom, in the course of a month, has as fine a Munster brogue as ever trolled over the lips of any born Corkagian.

  26. At one draught John Davis drained the cup, and with one hand Beating the measure, rapidly trolled again.

  27. Up leapt Will Kemp, And crouched and swayed, and swung his bauble round, Making the measure as they trolled the tale, Chanting alternately, each answering each.

  28. In addition to his other faculties, no one cut a sly joke, or trolled a merry ditty, better than Jerry.

  29. Even singing songs becomes somewhat monotonous, especially when the list is small and the singers have already trolled them forth over and over again.

  30. There was more of good-will than grace in his performance; but he trolled with ample lungs; and the sound of his voice took hold upon the hillside and set the air shaking in the leafy glens.

  31. As "His Majesty" trolled out this, Russell could not help feeling that it was decidedly out of accord with his royal character, and ventured even to hint as much.

  32. It is but a few years since Wabashaw and his dusky ancestors trolled their lines by day and speared pickerel and pike by torchlight at night upon its placid bosom, but now it is the favorite resort of picnic-parties from St. Paul.

  33. As the two men, after carefully closing the door behind them, stepped into the road, a distant singer trolled forth a seasonable old hymn.

  34. And the louder they called the louder Reb Shemuel trolled his hilarious Grace: May He who maketh Peace in the High Heavens, bestow Peace upon us and upon all Israel and say ye, Amen.

  35. He whistled and trolled a bit of a song, as if they might sit somewhere in the woods and watch him.

  36. And, indeed, it was not for any meaningless delight he twanged and trolled his songs, but rather by way of diversion, by way of relief from his weighty thoughts.

  37. Truly, I have trolled one now and then," quoth the Cook, "yet I would not sing alone.

  38. They trolled across and across the channel, and caught in about ten days some thirty large silver fish, the biggest being about 15lb.

  39. This river has long been a fishing ground for the Indians, who trolled for the fish with a strong hand-line and spoon.

  40. The lawyer joined in the chorus, encored the song, and trolled "ow ow ow ow ows" until the blood vessels over his brain pan demanded a rest.

  41. Here he trolled his favourite ditties beating the hoof behind his donkey.

  42. One evening, while in this posture, he took up his lute and trolled a favourite ditty.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trolled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.