shrill
Example Sentences
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Shrill whistles mixed with drums, tambourines and the clacking of spoons on pots as public employees shut down streets in Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, on Friday to demand better pay and pensions.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
Hulu's "Shrill" sees another "SNL" cast member – Aidy Bryant – star as Annie Easton, a Pacific Northwest journalist who is working to establish her identity while fighting societal norms surrounding body image.
From Fox News • Sep. 16, 2021
All three seasons of "Shrill" are streaming on Hulu.
From Salon • May 8, 2021
Lindy told me that she was allowed to pick one of several people who would join the Shrill writers’ room that summer in Los Angeles, and she wanted that person to be me.
From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2020
Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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