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
"Who's there?" creaked the stridulous voice of good Mrs. Sprowl.
From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
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 Hergesheimer, Joseph
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 Taylor, Benjamin
The poet spoke yet more, but in the end his excited stridulous accents fell on Reb Shemuel's ears as a storm without on the ears of the slippered reader by the fireside.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
