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

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 Jones, P.

She rehearsed the unending plaint of those long evenings, set to the music of the restless wind around her bleak dwelling, with something of its stridulous reiteration.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret

The patient may rapidly become cyanosed, the inspirations assume a noisy, stridulous character, and great distress and imminent suffocation supervene.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Now, at ten am, the whole mass is at furnace heat, kettles boiling, stewpots simmering, and frying-pans hissing—in short, a complete batterie de cuisine in stridulous activity.

From The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne