shrilly
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As we speak, I can hear one of the Tower’s nine ravens squawking shrilly at a group eating lunch on a nearby bench.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021
We startle a chunky little woodcock that's sheltering in the long grass and it twitters its indignation shrilly.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2020
“Comrades! Quiet down!” the dictator cries out, while his wife shrilly shouts, “Silence!”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
Motorbikes jostled by, honking shrilly as they slalomed around young men in western clothes strolling with friends, their fingers or arms linked affectionately.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2016
Olakunde deposited the young child on the dock, where he no sooner had stood than he began to scream shrilly.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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