stridulous

How to use stridulous in a sentence

• He alternates his tapping with his stridulous call, and the effect on a cool, autumn-like morning is very pleasing.

  A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs

• The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, Issue 342, November 22, 1828 | Various

• The vestal silence remained unbroken by the stridulous clarinet and the blatant trombones.

  The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 | Various

• The dog maintained a stridulous barking; and James Polder carried her, in an ecstasy of snarling ill-temper, out.

  The Three Black Pennys | Joseph Hergesheimer

• Red and green interlacing circles swam before her eyes, she heard the abandoned stridulous voice of Monna Sidonia as if from afar.

  The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci | Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky