SHRILL in a Sentence

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1. And manfully seconding Wade's yell was the shrill piping of Beau.
2. Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf.
3. A hum of shrill voices reverberated against the low ceiling, leaving Lily shut out in a little circle of silence.
4. The rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy.
5. As the shrill words shot out Ethan heard a tap on the door, which he had drawn shut when he turned back from the threshold.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHRILL
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shrill
 a.  acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  As the shrill words shot out Ethan heard a tap on the door, which he had drawn shut when he turned back from the threshold.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  The shrill, melancholy minor of Prissy was raised, "Jes' a few mo days, ter tote de wee-ry load."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  She caught a fleeting glimpse of a head of red curls and saw that creature, Belle Watling, heard her shrill drunken laughter as she clung for support to a one-armed soldier who reeled and staggered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Despite the fear that made it shrill, they recognized the voice of Sally Fontaine who, only an hour before, had stopped at Tara for a brief chat on her way to Jonesboro.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  And manfully seconding Wade's yell was the shrill piping of Beau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
8  A hum of shrill voices reverberated against the low ceiling, leaving Lily shut out in a little circle of silence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
9  A bright hard winter day, the wind shrill, black and silver clouds booming across the sky, everything in panicky motion during the brief light.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Her voice was high and rather shrill, and she often spoke with an anxious inflection, for she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  He placed a finger in his mouth, and drew a long, shrill whistle, which was answered from the rocks that were guarded by the Mohicans.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
13  The horns of the victors sounded merry and cheerful flourishes, until the last laggard of the camp was at his post; but the instant the British fifes had blown their shrill signal, they became mute.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
14  The well-known crack of a rifle, whose ball came skipping along the placid surface of the strait, and a shrill yell from the island, interrupted his speech, and announced that their passage was discovered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
15  Exasperated as much by his composure as by his good-fortune, their words became unintelligible, and were succeeded by shrill, piercing yells.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
Example Sentence:
1  Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name "Alice!"
2  "Get up !" said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen, the royal children, and everybody else.
3  The rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy.
4  She had a shrill high - pitched voice.