shrilly
Example Sentences
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Air raid alarms still sound regularly, screeching shrilly on downloadable phone apps, but they’re so rarely followed by blasts — unlike in pounded front-line towns and cities — that few pay them much mind.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2022
We shout shrilly that they must get a college degree, because without one they can’t hope to compete in the globalized economy, but even as we say it, we doubt our own advice.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022
As we speak, I can hear one of the Tower’s nine ravens squawking shrilly at a group eating lunch on a nearby bench.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
We startle a chunky little woodcock that's sheltering in the long grass and it twitters its indignation shrilly.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2020
Once Acorn put up a plover, which flew round them, calling shrilly, until at length they crossed a bank and left it behind.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
