shrill
adjective
high-pitched and piercing in sound quality.
have shrilled
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present perfectof shrill.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The automatic alarm should have shrilled out a warning.
From Acid Bath by Herman B. Vestal
And aided by the—to them—friendly mist, many escape who would otherwise have shrilled their last battle-hiss.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
Now, Gilles knew nothing of Southern minstrelsy, and if he had, the pitch he was screwed to would have shrilled such knowledge out of him.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
