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Definition of shrill in English: shrilladjective ʃrɪlʃrɪl 1(of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing. Example sentencesExamples - Incidentally not once during the five days did the shrill sound of a whistle disturb concentration.
- Amara could hear her voice rising to a shrill whine, as it always did when she was upset.
- On the grassy knoll beside the silvery Elephant Falls, a shrill cacophony of female voices compete with the roar of the cataract.
- The first time it had happened, Peter was sound asleep until the shrill sound of shrieking woke him up with a start.
- In a statement read in court, Joan Turner said he used to let out a low whimpering sound and an occasional high-pitched shrill noise which could keep his mother awake.
- The man lifted a whistle that hung around his neck and blew into it, causing a sharp, shrill sound to be emitted.
- For the last track on the album, he used 22 violins - no violas or cellos, so you get a very shrill sound.
- A shrill beep sounded in the room and I unceremoniously erupted from the bed.
- Kara screeched in a shrill voice while Alex yanked his shorts back on with a bit of difficulty.
- The shrill sound of Iris's voice (as well as her sharp knocking on the door) immediately changes the mood in the room.
- But our face-off was interrupted by the shrill voice of a woman who stepped into the alcove.
- The shrill voice echoed in the earpiece and Judith automatically tilted the phone away from her ear.
- The phone rings, a shrill echo of sound from kitchen, living room, bedroom.
- The girls on the team have shrill voices and the boys sound like they are 35, made worse by dialogue mixed too loud.
- When he thought something ironic, he would let out a high-pitched shrill laugh that sounded like a hyena.
- The shrill sound of the tea whistle gives Beth a reason to avoid the question.
- Julian winced slightly at the sound of the shrill voice echoing down the halls, accompanied by thundering footsteps.
- The cave echoed and re-echoed with the sounds of shrill squeals and flapping wings.
- Now, in August, the shrill sound of grasshoppers rang out across the undulating flatland beyond Sand Creek.
- A piercing and shrill sound could be heard in the distance.
Synonyms high-pitched, piercing, high, sharp, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, air-rending, penetrating, shattering, strident, loud, strong, intrusive, screeching, shrieking, screechy, squawky - 1.1derogatory (especially of a complaint or demand) loud and forceful.
a concession to their shrill demands Example sentencesExamples - His left-leaning editorial cartoons were, by his own admission, shrill and unconvincing.
- The parade went on, despite shrill objections from the Vatican and other religious groups.
- Don't be too harsh, too shrill in attacking the President.
- I suspect they will be even more shrill and irrational while questioning Miers.
- The only thing the Left offered was shrill ideology.
- And what I found was that the people who were criticizing him were being just as shrill and obnoxious as he was being onstage at the Oscars.
- It is too prosecutorial in tone, too shrill in its historical judgments.
- His calamitous ignorance of his system's failure, plus his reluctance to acknowledge it once was drawn to his attention, drew shrill demands for his dismissal.
- Bombay society is small, shrill and energetic.
- Another is that, while there has always been a puritanical, judgmental side to Musar, this voice has grown louder and more shrill in recent times.
- Unfortunately, much of this criticism has been shrill.
- You don't see him walking around making shrill announcements and talking garbage.
- The delegation today is little more than a shrill chorus of the administration's critics.
- Yet the shrill protests from Smith's critics revealed less about Smith's work than about their own false and constructed assumptions.
- Criticism reached shrill heights during the lead-up to the war against the dictator.
- So far, his shrill denunciations look pretty poor indeed when compared to the output of other people in the Party.
- While the semaphore continues with increasingly shrill demands of ‘do deal now!’
- It's a tragic tale but never shrill or sentimental in the telling.
- The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
- The real show of class warfare is the threatened curtailment of charitable status for private schools and the shrill demand that universities take more state-school pupils.
verb ʃrɪlʃrɪl [no object]1Make a shrill noise. a piercing whistle shrilled through the night air Example sentencesExamples - The whistle shrilled and he moved the kettle to a hot pad on the counter for a moment.
- Frogs croaked in the ditches; cicadas shrilled in the fields.
- When the phone shrilled on his desk, the tone of the woman on the other end was not a happy one.
- Four hours later my alarm shrilled, and Bob arrived a half hour after that.
- The next day, just one minute before our alarm clock rings for gym time, my phone took a head start and shrilled loudly.
- I awoke to find my phone shrilling loudly, as if threatening to fall off its hook any time.
- The telephone shrilled to life, and Devan immediately walked over to answer it.
- Just when they had arrived in front of Roy's apartment, Michael's cell phone shrilled.
- As she had feared, the bell shrilled while she was still a dozen steps from the classroom door.
- The phone shrilled twice before being answered.
- By the time the final whistle shrilled through Dr Cullen an exhibition of scoring had been given by the Kildavin-Clonegal team.
- What will be going on behind the sideline masks they will wear for most of the time tomorrow when the whistle shrills the start of the Allianz Hurling League final?
- Everyone in the doctor's family is getting ready for a social event, when the telephone shrills urgently.
- Rolan looked away into the distance of grey as a sea gull shrilled into the sky.
- The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.
- His cell phone shrilled, breaking his thoughts.
- Once they and the others have paid a tiny tribute to a few families that keep the market area clean, a whistle shrills and the bartering begins.
- Galahs and lorikeets are shrilling and squawking over their territory in the old Norfolk Island pines and everyone is glad that night, finally, has rescued us from the sun's brutal strength.
- I woke to hear my alarm clock shrilling at me and after shutting it off I went to have a shower and put some make up on.
- Something was shrilling - quite loudly, mind you - directly beside her left ear.
- 1.1 Speak or cry with a shrill voice.
with direct speech ‘How dare you!’ she shrilled Synonyms screech, scream, shriek, squawk, howl, cry, wail, squall, yawp, yelp, shrill
noun ʃrɪlʃrɪl A shrill sound or cry. the shrill of a smoke detector filled the air Example sentencesExamples - The Urlaur fans sensed a comeback and this was confirmed just before the shrill of the half-time whistle when Barry Nolan hit a curling shot into the bottom corner.
- Michael's voice rang through the room with an ear-splitting shrill.
- But for the endless shrill of crickets and the loud whistle of a bird, the silence of the forest was enchanting and complete.
- I heard a mighty shrill as I stepped into the room.
- She woke the next morning to the shrill of the telephone ringing.
- Asha had almost reached the mansion when she heard the screeching sound, sounding like a death shrill to her ears.
- Their shrill of their young voices could be heard as they broke the silence of the day in the joy of their play.
- They were only to be halted by the shrill of the whistle.
- The shrill of the phone interrupts my melancholy.
- The hours dragged on until the school bell rang, its loud shrill signalling the end of the school day.
- My thoughts got interrupted by the shrill of the bell.
- The shrill of a cell phone disrupted the conversation.
- Their voices raised to the sharp shrill of a four-year-old just told to eat her vegetables.
- She heard a shrill of laughter that sounded as if it would have split a storm into two halves.
- She yells, but her voice takes on a slight shrill.
- Tyler was lost for words, wondering about his reward when he heard a great shrill of excitement from the cash register.
- The sudden shrill of the cell phone interrupted them.
- There was a full minute of silence after the shrill of his initial response had faded away.
- Wake-up time was still several weeks away, so their stiff limbs didn't stir an inch, even with the shrill of our train whistle.
- The high shrill of the bell notified the students that the class was over.
Synonyms screech, scream, shriek, squawk, howl, cry, wail, squall, yawp, yelp, shrill
Derivatives nounˈʃrɪlnəsˈʃrɪlnəs The shrillness of our ideological debates, the emotional shallowness, the vulgarity of our culture, would have appalled him. Example sentencesExamples - With maturity Mariza is singing better than ever, and the slight tendency to shrillness, previously the only flaw in her voice, has now disappeared.
- This is an increasingly complicated and vital issue, but when handled with such shrillness and heavy-handed irony, the message is soon lost.
- The rhythm of the engine, the shrillness of the whistle and the lyrical quality of the train trailing off from the place are a part of the lives here.
- Ruthless editing would have crafted sharp-edged form out of the three hours of exhausting overabundance, infused subtlety into unrelieved shrillness.
adverb ˈʃrɪlliˈʃrɪlli 1With a high-pitched and piercing voice or sound. shrilly screaming children - 1.1 Loudly and forcefully.
Example sentencesExamples - the phone rang shrilly
- Screams of agony echoed shrilly above the sounds of battle.
- Abu Josef's phone suddenly rang shrilly and Abu Josef ran to pick it up.
- Patricia's only skills lie in shrilly harping on about the emotive issues of the day, and dressing up like she should have dressed down.
- the arguments were shrilly rejected
- the minister called shrilly for appropriate mental health services
Origin late Middle English: of Germanic origin; related to Low German schrell 'sharp in tone or taste'. Rhymes bill, Brazil, brill, Camille, chill, cookchill, dill, distil (US distill), downhill, drill, Edgehill, Estoril, fill, freewill, frill, fulfil (US fulfill), Gill, goodwill, grill, grille, hill, ill, instil, kill, krill, mil, mill, nil, Phil, pill, quadrille, quill, rill, Seville, shill, sill, skill, spadille, spill, squill, still, stock-still, swill, thill, thrill, till, trill, twill, until, uphill, will Definition of shrill in US English: shrilladjectiveʃrɪlSHril 1(of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing. Example sentencesExamples - The shrill sound of the tea whistle gives Beth a reason to avoid the question.
- But our face-off was interrupted by the shrill voice of a woman who stepped into the alcove.
- The shrill sound of Iris's voice (as well as her sharp knocking on the door) immediately changes the mood in the room.
- The shrill voice echoed in the earpiece and Judith automatically tilted the phone away from her ear.
- The phone rings, a shrill echo of sound from kitchen, living room, bedroom.
- When he thought something ironic, he would let out a high-pitched shrill laugh that sounded like a hyena.
- In a statement read in court, Joan Turner said he used to let out a low whimpering sound and an occasional high-pitched shrill noise which could keep his mother awake.
- Kara screeched in a shrill voice while Alex yanked his shorts back on with a bit of difficulty.
- The first time it had happened, Peter was sound asleep until the shrill sound of shrieking woke him up with a start.
- Julian winced slightly at the sound of the shrill voice echoing down the halls, accompanied by thundering footsteps.
- Now, in August, the shrill sound of grasshoppers rang out across the undulating flatland beyond Sand Creek.
- Incidentally not once during the five days did the shrill sound of a whistle disturb concentration.
- Amara could hear her voice rising to a shrill whine, as it always did when she was upset.
- On the grassy knoll beside the silvery Elephant Falls, a shrill cacophony of female voices compete with the roar of the cataract.
- A piercing and shrill sound could be heard in the distance.
- A shrill beep sounded in the room and I unceremoniously erupted from the bed.
- For the last track on the album, he used 22 violins - no violas or cellos, so you get a very shrill sound.
- The cave echoed and re-echoed with the sounds of shrill squeals and flapping wings.
- The girls on the team have shrill voices and the boys sound like they are 35, made worse by dialogue mixed too loud.
- The man lifted a whistle that hung around his neck and blew into it, causing a sharp, shrill sound to be emitted.
Synonyms high-pitched, piercing, high, sharp, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, air-rending, penetrating, shattering, strident, loud, strong, intrusive, screeching, shrieking, screechy, squawky - 1.1derogatory (especially of a complaint or demand) loud and forceful.
a concession to their shrill demands Example sentencesExamples - His calamitous ignorance of his system's failure, plus his reluctance to acknowledge it once was drawn to his attention, drew shrill demands for his dismissal.
- And what I found was that the people who were criticizing him were being just as shrill and obnoxious as he was being onstage at the Oscars.
- It's a tragic tale but never shrill or sentimental in the telling.
- While the semaphore continues with increasingly shrill demands of ‘do deal now!’
- Bombay society is small, shrill and energetic.
- So far, his shrill denunciations look pretty poor indeed when compared to the output of other people in the Party.
- It is too prosecutorial in tone, too shrill in its historical judgments.
- Don't be too harsh, too shrill in attacking the President.
- Criticism reached shrill heights during the lead-up to the war against the dictator.
- The only thing the Left offered was shrill ideology.
- Yet the shrill protests from Smith's critics revealed less about Smith's work than about their own false and constructed assumptions.
- I suspect they will be even more shrill and irrational while questioning Miers.
- The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
- You don't see him walking around making shrill announcements and talking garbage.
- The real show of class warfare is the threatened curtailment of charitable status for private schools and the shrill demand that universities take more state-school pupils.
- Unfortunately, much of this criticism has been shrill.
- The parade went on, despite shrill objections from the Vatican and other religious groups.
- His left-leaning editorial cartoons were, by his own admission, shrill and unconvincing.
- Another is that, while there has always been a puritanical, judgmental side to Musar, this voice has grown louder and more shrill in recent times.
- The delegation today is little more than a shrill chorus of the administration's critics.
verbʃrɪlSHril [no object]1Make a shrill noise. a piercing whistle shrilled through the night air Example sentencesExamples - As she had feared, the bell shrilled while she was still a dozen steps from the classroom door.
- Frogs croaked in the ditches; cicadas shrilled in the fields.
- By the time the final whistle shrilled through Dr Cullen an exhibition of scoring had been given by the Kildavin-Clonegal team.
- The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.
- What will be going on behind the sideline masks they will wear for most of the time tomorrow when the whistle shrills the start of the Allianz Hurling League final?
- The phone shrilled twice before being answered.
- Just when they had arrived in front of Roy's apartment, Michael's cell phone shrilled.
- The telephone shrilled to life, and Devan immediately walked over to answer it.
- When the phone shrilled on his desk, the tone of the woman on the other end was not a happy one.
- Galahs and lorikeets are shrilling and squawking over their territory in the old Norfolk Island pines and everyone is glad that night, finally, has rescued us from the sun's brutal strength.
- Something was shrilling - quite loudly, mind you - directly beside her left ear.
- I woke to hear my alarm clock shrilling at me and after shutting it off I went to have a shower and put some make up on.
- Everyone in the doctor's family is getting ready for a social event, when the telephone shrills urgently.
- I awoke to find my phone shrilling loudly, as if threatening to fall off its hook any time.
- Rolan looked away into the distance of grey as a sea gull shrilled into the sky.
- The next day, just one minute before our alarm clock rings for gym time, my phone took a head start and shrilled loudly.
- His cell phone shrilled, breaking his thoughts.
- Four hours later my alarm shrilled, and Bob arrived a half hour after that.
- The whistle shrilled and he moved the kettle to a hot pad on the counter for a moment.
- Once they and the others have paid a tiny tribute to a few families that keep the market area clean, a whistle shrills and the bartering begins.
- 1.1 Speak or cry with a shrill voice.
with direct speech “For God's sake!” shrilled Jan Synonyms screech, scream, shriek, squawk, howl, cry, wail, squall, yawp, yelp, shrill
nounʃrɪlSHril A shrill sound or cry. the shrill of a smoke detector filled the air Example sentencesExamples - Asha had almost reached the mansion when she heard the screeching sound, sounding like a death shrill to her ears.
- Tyler was lost for words, wondering about his reward when he heard a great shrill of excitement from the cash register.
- The shrill of the phone interrupts my melancholy.
- The hours dragged on until the school bell rang, its loud shrill signalling the end of the school day.
- I heard a mighty shrill as I stepped into the room.
- She heard a shrill of laughter that sounded as if it would have split a storm into two halves.
- She yells, but her voice takes on a slight shrill.
- There was a full minute of silence after the shrill of his initial response had faded away.
- My thoughts got interrupted by the shrill of the bell.
- The shrill of a cell phone disrupted the conversation.
- But for the endless shrill of crickets and the loud whistle of a bird, the silence of the forest was enchanting and complete.
- Wake-up time was still several weeks away, so their stiff limbs didn't stir an inch, even with the shrill of our train whistle.
- The high shrill of the bell notified the students that the class was over.
- They were only to be halted by the shrill of the whistle.
- She woke the next morning to the shrill of the telephone ringing.
- Their voices raised to the sharp shrill of a four-year-old just told to eat her vegetables.
- Their shrill of their young voices could be heard as they broke the silence of the day in the joy of their play.
- The sudden shrill of the cell phone interrupted them.
- The Urlaur fans sensed a comeback and this was confirmed just before the shrill of the half-time whistle when Barry Nolan hit a curling shot into the bottom corner.
- Michael's voice rang through the room with an ear-splitting shrill.
Synonyms screech, scream, shriek, squawk, howl, cry, wail, squall, yawp, yelp, shrill
Origin Late Middle English: of Germanic origin; related to Low German schrell ‘sharp in tone or taste’. |