shrill
Example Sentences
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“My grandmother was a sharecropper in Arkansas, and I know that this is the same thing,” a man shouts at one point as whistles shrill and a handheld siren wails.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2026
Thatcher was seen as "strange and shrill" when she got the job, but became the party's most successful boss of modern times.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025
“I know James isn’t going to take the impression in a more self-righteous or shrill direction,” he says—not because “SNL” is playing things safe, but because the bit simply wouldn’t be as funny.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
Then all the shrill noise of combat hits the ears at once and you understand how impossible it is to make sense of anything.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025
From a distance came the shrill call of a bird, the first birdsong he had heard since leaving Caer Dallben.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing shrill
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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"Easter, 1916" by W.B. Yeats
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