shrill
Example Sentences
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“It’s like, every second word somebody’s doing a shrill horrible laugh,” he said, “and it’s nonstop through the entire piece.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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
Bars beckon along our path of modern-day “riau-riau music, the pipes shrill and the drums pounding,” and we dance our way in and out of a few joints, looking for the right madness.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
Thatcher was seen as "strange and shrill" when she got the job, but became the party's most successful boss of modern times.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025
I said yes, and as a result, I can still hear the witch's shrill cackle every time I reach for a broom.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Vocabulary lists containing shrill
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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"Easter, 1916" by W.B. Yeats
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