stridulous
Example Sentences
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At the farthest extremity of stridulous sell, or repetition and saturation, stands Ted Bates Chairman Reeves, author of a controversial and wide-selling book, Reality in Advertising.
From Time Magazine Archive
This last idea he derides as 'false below confute, arising perhaps from a small and stridulous noise which, being firmly rooted, it maketh upon divulsion of parts.'
From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor
"Brother Silas speaks well," said Sister Parsons, with stridulous fluency.
From By Shore and Sedge by Bret Harte
The dog maintained a stridulous barking; and James Polder carried her, in an ecstasy of snarling ill-temper, out.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
No," returned the captain in a stridulous whisper, "I have made no mistake.
From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss
