Synonym: grating, harsh, piercing, screechy, sharp, squeaky. Antonym: deep. Similar words: thrill, thrilled, shrimp, shrink, shriek, drill, brilliant, peril. Meaning: [ʃrɪl] v. utter a shrill cry. adj. 1. having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones 2. being sharply insistent on being heard 3. of colors that are bright and gaudy.
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61. Sylvie burst out in a shrill laugh before leaving the room.
62. Whistles began to shrill outside the barn.
63. Shrill protests about the new taxes filled the newspapers.
64. We could hear the shrill of the midsummer cricket.
65. But he was interrupted by a shrill cackle.
66. His voice was shrill, but very clear and articulate.
67. She wore a tight shrill green dress.
68. His criticism was so shrill that it provoked resentment.
69. The unearthly silence was broken by a shrill screaming.
70. A shrill trumpet - call had pierced the air.
71. Telephones shrill uselessly in deserted offices.
72. His wife was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible.
73. The horse shied at the shrill whistle.
74. The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the case of the mind as in that of the ear.
75. So fierce you whirr and pound (Sentencedict.com), you drums -- so shrill you bugles blow.
76. Some women were laughing in the pit. Their voices were horribly shrill and discordant.
77. 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.
78. March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.
79. The noise of the wind over the heath was shrill.
80. And "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher had elocution lessons to make her voice less shrill.
81. A hum of shrill voices reverberated against the low ceiling.
82. A shrill whistle filled the desert air as they attacked the thick glassy surface with their sixteen thaumaturgy energy rays on the sharp ends of their legs.
83. Laotse had laughed before him, a thin , shrill yet cataclysmic laughter.
84. Instead of sounding shrill and selfish, Finney manages a nice balancing act between grounding him enough to be solid and letting him let Erin befuddle him.
84. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
85. The shrill voice of the police vehicle was behind them, bethought of hijacking the hostage.
86. When he found himself in a bye - street, he vented his delight in a shrill scream.
87. While the Moldovan Communists moderated their initially shrill anti-market and anti-imperialist rhetoric, their eight years in power nevertheless marked a significant erosion of democratic freedoms.
88. Each limited disclosure about Chernobylwas followed by a shrill TASS account of nuclear problems in the U.S. and Europe.
89. The first is that however you tart it up, a message of broad continuity makes a nonsense of the Grand Old Party's shrill disparagement of the incumbent president's foreign policy.
90. Catcall:a harsh or shrill call or whistle expressing derision or disapproval.