shrill
IPA: ʃrˈɪɫ
noun
- A shrill sound.
verb
- To make a shrill noise.
adjective
- High-pitched and piercing.
- Having a shrill voice.
- Sharp or keen to the senses.
- (figuratively, derogatory, especially of a complaint or demand) Fierce, loud, strident.
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Examples of "shrill" in Sentences
- The call is a loud shrill scream.
- The shrill sound came from the valley.
- But the debate remains as shrill as ever.
- The song is a monotonous series of shrill notes.
- Harry Reid doesn't know what the term shrill means.
- The complaint seems very shrill, and lacking evidence.
- Sure is irritating dealing with the abrasive and the shrill though.
- He is not a parapsychologist and merely a shrill critic of the field.
- All the usual technical characteristics, and the shrill style to boot.
- PAGE 134.l. 13. _ivory shrill_, the shrill sound of the ivory horn. ll.
- This article looks shrill and histrionic and theirs is very sophisticated.
- The male's call is a shrill whistle, and the female's is throatier whistle.
- And one "empirical" "measure" might be to track how much of a comeback the word shrill makes
- The lieutenant spoke in short shrill periods, chopping off the ends of his words as if with a hatchet.
- When I hear the word shrill, I think of some totally off the rails person half screaming about some nonsense.
- On the instant they recognized the head, and on the instant rose their wild hearty laughter as they explained to one another in shrill falsetto voices.
- He sites what he calls the shrill voices of liberal-left journalists, or 'laptop bombadiers' that became the champions of forceful western intervention.
- And one "empirical" "measure" might be to track how much of a comeback the word shrill makes, in what contexts (and not) and with regard to whom (and not).
- Per contra, there was Frank Barlow, whom we used to call "Crazy Barlow" because of his headlong rush at whatever object he had in view, and he could make the call shrill and thrill like a fife.
- Once a voice of restraint and reason, Sullivan now specializes in shrill panic: mercurial ranting full nof operatic arguments, steeped in bad faith, aimed at people he once praised (including yours truly).