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
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)
"Brother Silas speaks well," said Sister Parsons, with stridulous fluency.
From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret
This crowing sound is accompanied by a harsh, grating, stridulous kind of cry which has been compared to the noise produced by whetting a scythe.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897 by Various
Again Edmund fired upon it, and again it uttered its stridulous pipe of defiance, or fear, and leaped away in the tangle.
From A Columbus of Space by Serviss, Garrett Putman
