shrill

How to use shrill in a sentence

Unfortunately, the right’s shrill complaints about cancel culture obscure this far more present and complex problem.

Hearing them without describing them as shrill or hysterical has proved to be a separate, but equally daunting, task.

Memes have moved on from kitsch and community-forming to shrill and preachy.

In the city, where the songbirds have to compete with cars, barking dogs, and construction, their calls were louder and more shrill.

Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf.

"God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.

"Come in," said a Cockney voice shrill with youth, in answer to her tap; and the child obeyed.

"I shall feed no Yankees," cried a shrill voice, and a young lady flounced out of the door, her face red with anger.

As they came trooping in, and tumbled into their seats, Letty Barford called out, in a shrill voice.

The voice was really horrible, breaking the peace and silence with its shrill clamour.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985

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