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The tiny clickings of their limbs, the perpetual challenges and cross-challenges of crossed antennae, the stridulations of the creatures, all combined to make a high-pitched but deafening din.

From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray

The broken stridulations took on the coherence of intelligible dots and dashes.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

All was silence around him, if you discounted the stridulations of insects and the be-ke korak-korak-korak of frogs.

From A Knyght Ther Was by Young, Robert F.

Curious rasping stridulations came from them, sounds which seemed to serve as means of communication, and which Mildred evidently understood.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various

They were advancing steadily and rapidly, shrill stridulations and a multitude of clickings marking their movements.

From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray