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It is home to the rare broad-leaved cudweed and shrill carder bumblebee and the Essex Wildlife Trust fears "incredibly rare" habitats would be "destroyed".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Mr. Hernández, a “Saturday Night Live” cast member, is particularly shrill as the best man who can’t forgive his pal for getting married.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“My grandmother was a sharecropper in Arkansas, and I know that this is the same thing,” a man shouts at one point as whistles shrill and a handheld siren wails.

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2026

The response around baseball to Tucker’s contract was as shrill as it was predictable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

With difficulty I started climbing one of the large trees on the island, but I was arrested by a shrill cry and a sudden scrambling in the upper branches.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Ethan Hawke registers in a much lower key, which counterbalances Amanda’s shriller moments.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023

"We are seeing the rhetoric on topics like migration get shriller," said Stefan Marschall, political scientist at the University of Duesseldorf.

From Reuters ● Jun. 7, 2023

Over this period, the political discourse also became shriller.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2017

The tone of public debate in Germany has become shriller over the past two years with the influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants.

From Time ● Jan. 1, 2017

It was like the whistling of a piccolo many times magnified—shrill and shriller till it keened with the terror of a lost soul and filled the room with the piercingness of itself.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

His half-sublimated wranglings with race are more complex and fraught than either his shrillest detractors or his most fawning defenders would have us believe.

From Salon ● May 30, 2012

Pick: Giants Jets at Bills Line: Jets by 5 1/2 The Jets have joined the Chargers and the Cowboys as one of the league’s shrillest teams.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010

“It’s a big test for the leadership. We cannot listen to the loudest, shrillest voices in our party,” said Rep. Charlie Dent, a moderate Republican who represents the Philadelphia suburbs.

From Washington Post

Villon reversed the process: his landscapes seethed with the brightest, sharpest and sometimes shrillest colors he could mix.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Marry?" cried Miss Million in her shrillest Putney-kitchen voice.

From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Mrs. Oliver Onions

Binoche is superbly entertaining as she first trills and shrills on the ways of proper womanhood, and then starts to relish the taste of new freedoms, like wearing trousers.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

Now his dog barks, the phone shrills and the laughter of chorus girls taunts him; yet he can’t make a sound.

From Time ● Dec. 27, 2011

As Olivier pauses, the cobwebbed telephone shrills like a police siren in the silence; scene and story reach their star-shell denouement.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fox shrills for freedom from its cage, where it is held because of the value of its fur.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Aunty Ifeoma woke me up, the room was dim and the shrills of the night crickets were dying away.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Prepare for a hard landing," Deutsche Bank shrilled in a Wednesday report.

From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2022

Magnets, magnets! shrilled my landlady, when I got back from weeks of doing what I was doing.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019

“There’ll never be another like him,” she shrilled when she recovered.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2016

The biometer shrilled again: temperature 102.5 and climbing.

From Nature ● Jun. 29, 2011

“The man we saw on the ground probably lagged behind the other workers and didn’t hear the foreman tell them to stop. He might have worked all night, getting thirstier and thirstier—” “Stop!” shrilled Matt.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

Thus was born the Nightingale of Samarkand, who was lowered in a cage during the bed scene while shrilling an insane modal tune to keep the Princess awake.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

A feeling like alarm bells shrilling in an empty building, no one to turn the alarm off, no one to respond.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020

Across social media, people are shrilling with outrage over the noise.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2020

Anyone who has thrilled to the shrilling of cicadas or marvelled at the bizarre behaviour of praying mantises will be entranced by this homage to the class Insecta.

From Nature ● Dec. 4, 2018

After a while—faintly at first and then louder—came the shrilling of fifes and rat-a-tat-tat of the drums.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham