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
There were stridulous, uncanny groans from quaking beams.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills
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 William Cowper
It was a woman, about forty years of age, the innocent victim of a dissolute husband, who came suffering with labored, stridulous breathing.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
At last he stopped, hearing a loud creaking sound, a grating stridulous noise, like that of the rusty hinges of some heavy iron gate which was being closed just behind him.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones
