Example Sentences

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As we speak, I can hear one of the Tower’s nine ravens squawking shrilly at a group eating lunch on a nearby bench.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

We startle a chunky little woodcock that's sheltering in the long grass and it twitters its indignation shrilly.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2020

“Have you come here,” he began shrilly, “to tell me what—”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

The characters, without exception, are disagreeable idiots, shrilly performed.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2016

He began to cry out, shrilly: "You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home."

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding