shrill

Example Sentences

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In her best quotable moments, she seamlessly infuses her sometimes shrill timbre with a dash of Southern drawl.

From Los Angeles Times

Scream queen Samara Weaving has an extraordinary yell: shrill, feral and ferocious, like a mongoose before it goes on the attack.

From Los Angeles Times

With an apology to his wife and me, he hurried upstairs and in a minute we heard a game of hide-and-seek going and the shrill laughter of two children.

From Literature

I’d heard the same clanging every day, every night, since we’d moved to this city, but there was something so shrill, so rude in the sound that I bolted up in bed.

From Literature

A shrill whistle came from the left, and I looked over to see Elliot already sitting in one of the simulation chairs.

From Literature