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
"Who's there?" creaked the stridulous voice of good Mrs. Sprowl.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
It was a woman, about forty years of age, the innocent victim of a dissolute husband, who came suffering with labored, stridulous breathing.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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 Israel Zangwill
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 Hector Charles Cameron
