shrill
Example Sentences
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“It’s like, every second word somebody’s doing a shrill horrible laugh,” he said, “and it’s nonstop through the entire piece.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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
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
But the tiny mouth remained open and twisted, and the crying was so shrill she wondered if it hurt the tiny body.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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