high-keyed

How to use high-keyed in a sentence

• It was the high-keyed wailing of this same man-child wanting his bottle, but it eluded Bud completely.

  Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower

• Figure to yourself this eager little chap: high-keyed, timid, fervid: something of a buffoon, always a victim of his perceptions.

  Where the Pavement Ends | John Russell

• So with high-keyed, feminine laughter and much dust, passed the exploring party from the Rocking R.

  The Happy Family | Bertha Muzzy Bower

• The roar was still steady, high-keyed, relentless.117 A myriad new voices seemed to have joined the screaming tumult.

  The Moccasin Ranch | Hamlin Garland

• I was too busy with my own troubles to see what happened to him, so could only judge from the tremolo of his high-keyed cursing.

  Down the Yellowstone | Lewis R. Freeman