shrills
- present tense form of shrill (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Shrills from the sellout crowd, anticipation stored up for nearly eight years, reverberated as it waited for the introduction of the fifth member of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ lineup.
From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2015
A fiery wrath has scorched their source, a voice Shrills through my brain—"Not upon us, on them Fall everlasting woe, if this thing be!"
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
Am I so weak withal, That I must loiter, though the bugle's call Shrills o'er the moor, the far-off weltering moor, Where foemen meet to vanquish or to fall?
From A Lover's Litanies by Mackay, Eric
High at the head their flaunting colors fly; High o'er the roar their wild, triumphant yell Shrills like the scream of panthers.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox
Ay, as the libertine repents who cannot Make done undone, when thro' his dying sense Shrills 'lost thro' thee.'
From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
