shrill
adjective
high-pitched and piercing in sound quality.
shrills
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present tense formof shrill (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
But when some world-shaking event takes place, La Prensa's horn shrills and a Prensa office boy trots downtown to pay the fine before its echo has died away.
From Time Magazine Archive
Classically trained, Ponty wails, shrills and sails through Hypomode de Sol, The Name of the Game and Scarborough Fair-Canticle.
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
