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• Her whinges grew even shriller and more annoying the longer we had to listen to them.From the entry whinge
• “Helps us!” Alaria’s desperate scream was so shrill my ears rang with it.2017, Robin Hobb [pen name; Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden], Assassin’s Fate (book III of the The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy), Del Rey, →ISBN. From the entry breadmonger
• The house phone rang -- a sudden shrill squawk of electronic noise.2016, Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry house phone
• All Emily could hear were blurpy noises and a shrill whistle.2015, Sarah Ditchburn Neal, Lynnehurst, Books III & IV, page 167. From the entry blurpy
• “So dad can't get here?” She added some shrill tones into the rising outrage.2015, Genie Davis, Pauline Baird Jones, Open With Care, →ISBN. From the entry zero chill
• As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.2011, Andy Mulligan, Return to Ribblestrop. From the entry squirt
• Small parties and flocks close to breeding sites commonly give shrill, high-pitched, trilling screams.2009, Mark Brazil, The Birds of East Asia, London: Christopher Helm, page 272. From the entry party
• My awkward sprawl sent Morgan and Carl into shrills of laughter.2008, Donna Milner, After River, London: Quercus, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry gibbled
• Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.2006 November 10, Jessica Hopper, “Ten Under the Radar”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antirock
• Margaret Sphery's shrill birdcalls, whistles, and hoots assailed us from a proximitous room.1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 56. From the entry proximitous
• He had no right to speak so rashly to the traech sorkra of Qamat!” Vraduir shrilled.1980, Juanita Coulson, The Death God’s Citadel, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →LCCN, page 334. From the entry beastkeeper
• The shrill electricality of the scene is certainly appropriate to its content.1973, The Film Journal, volume 2, numbers 2-4. From the entry electricality
• Their shrill tchick, tchick, tchick, had done the damage, warning of our approach.1964, Frank Cummings Hibben, Hunting in Africa, page 65. From the entry tchick
• They tormented their venerable grandmother with their shrill uproar and tricky behaviour.1913, Lewis Spence, chapter V, in The Myths of Mexico and Peru. From the entry torment
• Dull revolver shots—hoarse yells—pound of hoofs—shrill neighs of horses—commingling of echoes—and again silence!1912 January, Zane Grey, “The Fall of Balancing Rock”, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers…. From the entry commingling
• At the next corner a shrill whistle sounded in Sam’s ear.1908, O. Henry, “Squaring the Circle”, in The Voice of the City, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, published 1914, pages 130–131. From the entry wheel around
• Hot sauce helps—shrill, vinegary tonics or sweet, syrupy srirachas.2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN. From the entry pico de gallo
• There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar.2016, Lawrence Winkler, “Bajada”, in Orion’s Cartwheel (Cartwheels Quadrilogy; 1), Victoria, B.C.: First Choice Books, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry hombre
• As the band’s traditional instrumentalist, Yuri Callisaya, shrilled on the quena, the band’s fans sang along with Mr.2013 December 31, William Neuman, “Headbanging in Bolivia to the Flutes of Yore”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry quena
• A shrill bring bring sounded down the hall.2011, Cate Lord, chapter 7, in Lucky Girl, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry bring
• I don't see why I should keep a dog and bark myself!” Sadie's voice was so shrill that Polly winced.2011, Margaret Kaine, Ribbon of Moonlight. From the entry keep a dog and bark oneself
• With his hand on the instrument, the bell shrilled loudly.2009, Norman Berrow, Oil Under the Window, page 158. From the entry now what
• Ashley shrills exuberantly “I'm a CHILD, stupidhead!”2007, Lucy Jackson, POSH: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN. From the entry stupidhead
• A sweet dark name, though finally a shrill trite woman.1985, Alice Munro, The Progress of Love, Chatto&Windus, published 1987, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry rosemary
• These are the days when in shrill perfumed coveys they flutter through the houses and clubhouses of America's big cities.1941 January 27, “Subdebs”, in LIFE, page 75. From the entry subdebutante
• Immediately began that shrill and irritating squink-squink-squink.1937, William Byron Mowery, The Black Automatic, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN. From the entry squink
• His shrill, mirthless cachinnation followed Monica as she headed up-hill.1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter V, in The Understanding Heart. From the entry cachinnation
• It turned its eyes upon us, opened its lizard-like mouth, emitted a shrill hiss and came for us.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry plesiosaur
• While they stood there close to the old linhay a bird came flying round them in wide circles, uttering shrill cries.1917, John Galsworthy, Beyond. From the entry linhay
• Nastasha shrilled and went into her and Walter's room, just off the living room, and slammed the door as hard as she Lilliputianly could.2013, John Fredrick, The King of Good Intentions. From the entry Lilliputianly
• After a while, as cultural debates became more polarized, the editorial tone of the New Criterion went from being charmingly curmudgeon to being bitterly shrill.1996, Jeet Heer, Gravitas, Autumn 1996. From the entry curmudgeon
• When a Seascout meeting starts, we hear the shrill pipe of the bosn's call, and the word, “All hands fall in at quarters!”1920, Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America. From the entry bosn
• An ad truck passed down the lane blaring out a shrill announcement for a new perfume and cosmetics line that would be available Saturday in the town's department store.2004, John Dalton, Heaven Lake, page 449. From the entry ad truck
• I was brought up with, precisely, hauntingly, that shrill, nagging, over-insistent way of speaking, that bossy-pants way of walking, that remorseless insistence on always being right.1992, Richard Hoggart, An Imagined Life: Life and Times, Volume III: 1959-91, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry bossy pants
• I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 85. From the entry keening
• Lolek, the market boy, a waterheaded child of five, crawled among the wilted cabbage leaves and dead-eyed fishheads nodding his monstrous head to the shrill voice of the nun.1988, Hart Wegner, Houses of Ivory, page 81. From the entry waterheaded

Meaning of shrill

1. adjective High-pitched and piercing.
2. adjective Having a shrill voice.
3. adjective Sharp or keen to the senses.

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Questions about shrill in a sentence

How do you use shrill in a sentence?

Shrill is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “The woods rang with shrill cries of the birds.”

What is a short sentence with shrill?

“Ashley shrills exuberantly “I'm a CHILD, stupidhead!””

What does shrill mean?

Shrill means high-pitched and piercing.