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 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
“He was quite like his old self before he left——” “Thanks to Miss Percy,” broke in a stridulous voice.
From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
The patient may rapidly become cyanosed, the inspirations assume a noisy, stridulous character, and great distress and imminent suffocation supervene.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
