Example Sentences

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A feeling like alarm bells shrilling in an empty building, no one to turn the alarm off, no one to respond.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

Across social media, people are shrilling with outrage over the noise.

From Washington Times • Jul. 2, 2020

Anyone who has thrilled to the shrilling of cicadas or marvelled at the bizarre behaviour of praying mantises will be entranced by this homage to the class Insecta.

From Nature • Dec. 4, 2018

On the hill, a breeze stirred the tall cypresses; swallows darted, shrilling, in the great bowl of light below them.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

Still shrilling on the whistle, he fought and floundered against the tide of the crowd.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes