shrill's Usage Examples:

Even the sailor on the Atlantic and Pacific is awakened by his voice; but its shrill sound never roused me from my slumbers.

The whippers-in no longer set on the hounds, but changed to the cry of ulyulyu, and above the others rose Daniel's voice, now a deep bass, now piercingly shrill.

But here was a fairy forest with black moving shadows, and a glitter of diamonds and a flight of marble steps and the silver roofs of fairy buildings and the shrill yells of some animals.

"Here, by the very corner of my field, still nearer to town, Zilpha, a colored woman, had her little house, where she spun linen for the townsfolk, making the Walden Woods ring with her shrill singing, for she had a loud and notable voice.

Even the kitten gave a dreadfully shrill scream and at the same time Jim the cab-horse neighed loudly.

Fred's answer came just as the music switched to a shrill voice pleading for her lover to come back to the hills.

So, when the alarm shrilled its two cents' worth, Dean had cussed the sadist who invented it and figured it wasn't going to be a pleasant Wednesday.

The boy jumps out of the car and runs while the girl yells, "Wait!"But here was a fairy forest with black moving shadows, and a glitter of diamonds and a flight of marble steps and the silver roofs of fairy buildings and the shrill yells of some animals.

Such critics usually have little to offer as a clarion call beyond the shrill cry for evermore unbridled liberty.

chiffchaffs hidden high in the fresh foliage and streams of shrill rattles from secretive Wrens deep in the gills.

In three carriages involved among the munition carts, closely squeezed together, sat women with rouged faces, dressed in glaring colors, who were shouting something in shrill voices.

Synonyms:

sharp, high, high-pitched,

Antonyms:

put option, cause to sleep, demobilize, low,