shrilly

Example Sentences

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Air raid alarms still sound regularly, screeching shrilly on downloadable phone apps, but they’re so rarely followed by blasts — unlike in pounded front-line towns and cities — that few pay them much mind.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2022

As we speak, I can hear one of the Tower’s nine ravens squawking shrilly at a group eating lunch on a nearby bench.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

We startle a chunky little woodcock that's sheltering in the long grass and it twitters its indignation shrilly.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2020

“Have you come here,” he began shrilly, “to tell me what—”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

Olakunde deposited the young child on the dock, where he no sooner had stood than he began to scream shrilly.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson