He alternates his tapping with his stridulous call, and the effect on a cool, autumn-like morning is very pleasing.

The dog maintained a stridulous barking; and James Polder carried her, in an ecstasy of snarling ill-temper, out.

The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.

The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.