Every few seconds, a shrill cry of "Justin!" erupted from somewhere in the crowd.
Irvine thrust between his lips the little finger of each hand and lent to her efforts a shrill whistling.
Miss Sun was so furious she uttered a shrill -chien waited until Major Hou had entered the door opposite before he let out a curse at his already vanished broad back, "You dirty bastard!"
When we reached the little dachshund's pen, she was on her hind legs against a cyclone fence, barking in an unbearably shrill tone, though she was wagging her tail.
The boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.
He cried and his shrill tone troke the quietness, but the ship still left.
Well before she arrived, she'd call out a friendly word with what little voice she had left, which was shrill and rasping.
Stress is to the human condition what tension is to the violin string: too little and the music is dull and raspy; too much and the music is shrill or the string snaps.
She thrilled at the shrill clang of the ambulance bell.
Laotse had laughed before him, a thin, shrill yet cataclysmic laughter.
In 2011 we could all benefit from turning off the tinny, shrill newszak and hearing more real news about people like this – so we can resolve to be a little more like them.
His voice was shrill, but very clear and articulate.
Leshner is no big fan of Dawkins, saying Dawkins' shrill manner arguing makes the PR side of Leshner's job much more difficult.
To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.
Barack Obama got an unsolicited reminder of this on the campaign trail in 2008, when an off-the-cuff remark about the need to “spread the wealth around” provoked some shrill retorts.
The argument has gotten so shrill and divisive that I am bored by it.
The landlady's shrill voice always sets my teeth on edge.
While Japan was merely sounding shrill, China encouragingly said it was sending a high-ranking delegation to Pyongyang to talk reason.
Telephones shrill uselessly in deserted offices.
From the dining-room came the sound of mahjongtiles being shuffled round on the surface of the table and the shrill voices of the ladies as they commented on the extraordinary luck of the banker in the game they had just finished.
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