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
The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 by Various
No," returned the captain in a stridulous whisper, "I have made no mistake.
From The Second Deluge by Serviss, Garrett Putman
"Brother Silas speaks well," said Sister Parsons, with stridulous fluency.
From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret
Conspicuous amidst these nocturnal moths is the richly-coloured Acherontia Satanas, one of the Singhalese representatives of our Death's-head moth, which utters a sharp and stridulous cry when seized.
From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
