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shrills

noun as in shriek

verb as in scream

verb as in squeak

verb as in squeal

verb as in trill

verb as in screech

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verb as in holler

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Example Sentences

The fog-horn emitted a series of spasmodic and hideous shrills, and beyond a slight drifting the steamer was almost motionless.

And then it seems as though the air is being sucked in all around us; it shrills to a multitude of strange whistlings.

You go wrong: I hear you: and dese claps of zese noodels send you into squeaks and shrills, and false!

His country – he triumphantly shrills – is the best, an island of civilization among the barbarians at the gates.

Here the forsaken shell: above me the voice of the creature Shrills like the cry of a Soul quitting this world of pain.

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On this page you'll find 256 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shrills, such as: howl, screech, squawk, squeal, wail, and whoop.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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