shrill
adjective
high-pitched and piercing in sound quality.
are shrilling
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present progressiveof shrill.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Across social media, people are shrilling with outrage over the noise.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
Now that thy bugles their clear calls are shrilling, Now that thy battle voice echoes worldwide, O'er the long reaches of sea rush the willing Sons of thy children to fight by thy side.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
She sails for Sunken Harbor And ports of yester year; The tern are shrilling in the lift, The low wind-gates are clear.
From Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea by Bliss Carman
When the banners float and the bugles blow, And drums are on the street, Throbbing and thrilling, and fifes are shrilling, And there's tread of marching feet.
From Holiday Stories for Young People by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
But the reapers sing not in thy wheatfields: Tall sheaves wait ungarnered, Though swallows are shrilling in the skies.
From Eidola by Frederic Manning
