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
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
They could only make their boisterous clamor in response to the old-fashioned appeal made by a high tone screeched by the stridulous tenor.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
"Who's there?" creaked the stridulous voice of good Mrs. Sprowl.
From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
