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is shrilling

  • present progressive
    of shrill (3rd person singular).
    shrill
    adjective
    high-pitched and piercing in sound quality.

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Now a small bird is shrilling with a fine insect tone.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6 June, 1897 by Various

A grasshopper is shrilling in the grass about him.

From The Great Hunger by W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster