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
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
Nor is the sea now frozen, nor as before o'er the Ister Comes the Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
But at this moment the long-drawn, slightly stridulous utterances of Mrs. Brimmer rose through the other greetings like a lazy east wind.
From The Crusade of the Excelsior by Harte, Bret
It was a woman, about forty years of age, the innocent victim of a dissolute husband, who came suffering with labored, stridulous breathing.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
