stridulous
Example Sentences
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At the farthest extremity of stridulous sell, or repetition and saturation, stands Ted Bates Chairman Reeves, author of a controversial and wide-selling book, Reality in Advertising.
From Time Magazine Archive
An inspection of its stridulous surface shows that Mrs. Dudgeon is not alone.
From The Devil's Disciple by Shaw, Bernard
Methought I heard some sawyer draw his file With jarring, stridulous cacophany Across his notchy blade, to set its teeth And mine on edge.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose
Achilles and Ulysses had incurr'd265 Most his aversion; them he never spared; But now, imperial Agamemnon 'self In piercing accents stridulous he charged With foul reproach.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
No," returned the captain in a stridulous whisper, "I have made no mistake.
From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman
