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
No," returned the captain in a stridulous whisper, "I have made no mistake.
From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman
Inspiration becomes noisy, sometimes stridulous or metallic or sibilant, and there is marked indrawing of the epigastrium and lower intercostal spaces.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 by Various
There were stridulous, uncanny groans from quaking beams.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay
