shrill
Example Sentences
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It was a shrill and hideous sound: metal screeching on metal.
From Literature
The response around baseball to Tucker’s contract was as shrill as it was predictable.
From Los Angeles Times
The sound of a horse’s shrill whinny on the street below drifted in through an open window, but no breeze.
From Literature
He writes, for example, that the guitarist James Blood Ulmer plays “shrill, disjointed fragments, nervous bits and rickety pieces tied together by a staggered but wryly swinging thematic sensibility.”
Veronika’s shrill, repeated demand that they leave “right now, Mama, right now!” had given her a blinding headache, or so Madame claimed.
From Literature
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