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
Nor is the sea now frozen, nor as before o'er the Ister Comes the Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
It was as if the sparkling tent of the heavens were a great bowl turned over the place, hushing its stridulous merriment, stifling its wild laughter and dry-throated feminine screams.
From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
"Who's there?" creaked the stridulous voice of good Mrs. Sprowl.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
