Example Sentences

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The pinguid fingers of Matisse's Jenne Fille au Piano strike from the keyboard notes that drip with colored stridence, red like the shuddering walls, waxen yellow and scarlet like the overripe fruits on the table.

From Time Magazine Archive

His rhetoric took on a new stridence, a tendency toward verbal overkill that was at odds with the image of plain-spoken reason he had earlier cultivated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her voice rose a full octave and broke in stridence.

From We're Friends, Now by Varga, Mel

They have not scorned thy dubious bounty for stridence of grinding iron and pale caged lives made blind by the dust of toil to coin the very sun to gold.

From A Pushcart at the Curb by Dos Passos, John