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

"Brother Silas speaks well," said Sister Parsons, with stridulous fluency.

From By Shore and Sedge by Harte, Bret

Twice it circled rapidly round the vase, uttering strange, stridulous sounds, then floated up to the canopy overarching Felix's bed, and poised itself on the carved frame, waiting and flapping its wings, vulture-like.

From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

There were stridulous, uncanny groans from quaking beams.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

Often this recurs throughout all the burst of crying which follows, and each inspiration is accompanied by a shrill stridulous sound.

From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles