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The trust said this included dingy skipper, which is a small moth-like butterfly, and the shrill carder bumblebee, which was only found in two areas in England.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

When a shrill roar cut across the train yard a few seconds later, Bartlett promptly broke into tears.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

“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

“Making shrill and defiant statements against Trump are about the clearest way to get on his bad side.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

During one futile counterattack, “the French infantry made a gallant show, advancing across the Belgian beet fields with colors unfurled and bugles sounding the shrill notes of the ‘charge.’

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Ethan Hawke registers in a much lower key, which counterbalances Amanda’s shriller moments.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023

"We are seeing the rhetoric on topics like migration get shriller," said Stefan Marschall, political scientist at the University of Duesseldorf.

From Reuters ● Jun. 7, 2023

Over this period, the political discourse also became shriller.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2017

The tone of public debate in Germany has become shriller over the past two years with the influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants.

From Time ● Jan. 1, 2017

Her song grew louder, shriller . . . then she gasped, again and again, and her song became a shuddering wail, thin and high and full of agony.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

His half-sublimated wranglings with race are more complex and fraught than either his shrillest detractors or his most fawning defenders would have us believe.

From Salon ● May 30, 2012

Pick: Giants Jets at Bills Line: Jets by 5 1/2 The Jets have joined the Chargers and the Cowboys as one of the league’s shrillest teams.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010

“It’s a big test for the leadership. We cannot listen to the loudest, shrillest voices in our party,” said Rep. Charlie Dent, a moderate Republican who represents the Philadelphia suburbs.

From Washington Post

Villon reversed the process: his landscapes seethed with the brightest, sharpest and sometimes shrillest colors he could mix.

From Time Magazine Archive

Voiceful cricket, drunken with drops of dew, thou playest thy rustic music that murmurs in the solitude, and perched on the leaf edges shrillest thy lyre-tune with serrated legs and swart skin.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

Binoche is superbly entertaining as she first trills and shrills on the ways of proper womanhood, and then starts to relish the taste of new freedoms, like wearing trousers.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

Now his dog barks, the phone shrills and the laughter of chorus girls taunts him; yet he can’t make a sound.

From Time ● Dec. 27, 2011

But what Broadway saw last week was a story which, though it lacks tremolo, shrills along as vibrant and masculine as a trumpet call.

From Time Magazine Archive

Holding the other at bay with a sword cane, Cadell shrills a police whistle as the curtain falls.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Aunty Ifeoma woke me up, the room was dim and the shrills of the night crickets were dying away.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Prepare for a hard landing," Deutsche Bank shrilled in a Wednesday report.

From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2022

Magnets, magnets! shrilled my landlady, when I got back from weeks of doing what I was doing.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019

"If Balotelli's price comes down then I'll get over to Manchester immediately," shrilled vice-president Adriano Galliani.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013

The biometer shrilled again: temperature 102.5 and climbing.

From Nature ● Jun. 29, 2011

"Black men, I'm proud of you," the West Indian woman shrilled.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

A feeling like alarm bells shrilling in an empty building, no one to turn the alarm off, no one to respond.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2020

Across social media, people are shrilling with outrage over the noise.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2020

Anyone who has thrilled to the shrilling of cicadas or marvelled at the bizarre behaviour of praying mantises will be entranced by this homage to the class Insecta.

From Nature ● Dec. 4, 2018

On the hill, a breeze stirred the tall cypresses; swallows darted, shrilling, in the great bowl of light below them.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018

Chase called, excitement and cold shrilling his voice.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson