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

She chattered, unfazed, above sudden gusts of wind, shrilly gabbling turkeys and the occasional cricket-like ringtone of her phone.

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

They boo’ed in the tubes of the corkscrew stairs, rattled the wooden shutters, whined shrilly through the shot windows, stirred the cold tapestries in frigid undulations, searched for backbones.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White