shrills
- present tense form of shrill (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Binoche is superbly entertaining as she first trills and shrills on the ways of proper womanhood, and then starts to relish the taste of new freedoms, like wearing trousers.
From New York Times • May 5, 2023
Now his dog barks, the phone shrills and the laughter of chorus girls taunts him; yet he can’t make a sound.
From Time • Dec. 27, 2011
Classically trained, Ponty wails, shrills and sails through Hypomode de Sol, The Name of the Game and Scarborough Fair-Canticle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fox shrills for freedom from its cage, where it is held because of the value of its fur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Five days later, a newscaster shrills that Paris has fallen to the Germans, and the German people are overjoyed to see the Nazi flag hoisted over France.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
