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 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

The poet spoke yet more, but in the end his excited stridulous accents fell on Reb Shemuel's ears as a storm without on the ears of the slippered reader by the fireside.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

The dog maintained a stridulous barking; and James Polder carried her, in an ecstasy of snarling ill-temper, out.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth