shrill造句

Telephones shrill uselessly in deserted offices.

To speak shrilly; make a shrill sound.

The boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.

She thrilled at the shrill clang of the ambulance bell.

His voice was shrill, but very clear and articulate.

The landlady's shrill voice always sets my teeth on edge.

Every few seconds, a shrill cry of "Justin!" erupted from somewhere in the crowd.

He cried and his shrill tone troke the quietness, but the ship still left.

The argument has gotten so shrill and divisive that I am bored by it.

Laotse had laughed before him, a thin, shrill yet cataclysmic laughter.

Irvine thrust between his lips the little finger of each hand and lent to her efforts a shrill whistling.

While Japan was merely sounding shrill, China encouragingly said it was sending a high-ranking delegation to Pyongyang to talk reason.

Well before she arrived, she'd call out a friendly word with what little voice she had left, which was shrill and rasping.

Leshner is no big fan of Dawkins, saying Dawkins' shrill manner arguing makes the PR side of Leshner's job much more difficult.

Miss Sun was so furious she uttered a shrill -chien waited until Major Hou had entered the door opposite before he let out a curse at his already vanished broad back, "You dirty bastard!"

Barack Obama got an unsolicited reminder of this on the campaign trail in 2008, when an off-the-cuff remark about the need to “spread the wealth around” provoked some shrill retorts.

In 2011 we could all benefit from turning off the tinny, shrill newszak and hearing more real news about people like this – so we can resolve to be a little more like them.

Stress is to the human condition what tension is to the violin string: too little and the music is dull and raspy; too much and the music is shrill or the string snaps.

When we reached the little dachshund's pen, she was on her hind legs against a cyclone fence, barking in an unbearably shrill tone, though she was wagging her tail.

From the dining-room came the sound of mahjongtiles being shuffled round on the surface of the table and the shrill voices of the ladies as they commented on the extraordinary luck of the banker in the game they had just finished.