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Example sentences for "shrilled"

Lexicographically close words:
shrieve; shrift; shrike; shrikes; shrill; shriller; shrillest; shrilling; shrillness; shrills
  1. Richard rested at that, and in the pause a thin voice shrilled from within.

  2. Then, indeed, the furious little madman found his tongue and shrilled out his defiance.

  3. To his homeward march, her cicadas shrilled the music of fifes.

  4. The naked boy in the green nest brushed a swarm of flies from his handful of sticky sweetmeats, looked up, pounded the clumsy shoulders, and shrilled a command.

  5. The frogs were singing vespers in the ditches, the sharp chorus of the cicalas shrilled on all sides.

  6. The trumpeters shrilled for silence, the Secretary of the Republic read a Latin speech; everybody applauded what nobody understood.

  7. The whistle shrilled out again, and the cook made haste to place on the dumb-waiter the dish containing the fillets of sea-bass.

  8. In the pauses of the music fifes shrilled out, and the roll and rattle of drums covered the rhythmic tramping of the soldiers.

  9. I bet he's tired," shrilled Hoyle, from his perch on the porch roof.

  10. Ye was more'n sleepy, I reckon," shrilled the woman from the bed.

  11. Try as he would he could not repress one long shudder, at which a wild yell of delight shrilled up--and then he fainted.

  12. Brian kicked the arm aside, but slipped in blood and snow and went down; as a yell shrilled up from the pirates, Cathbarr leaped forward over him, swinging his ax mightily.

  13. Brian nodded and rode on in silence, for there were parties of horsemen and pikemen down below and the blare of horns shrilled up.

  14. Then indeed the Dark Master looked, and sprang to his feet, and one great shout of alarm and fear shrilled up from those watching.

  15. A low cry of bitterness and despair shrilled from her lips.

  16. She pointed to the far corner of the room and shrilled warningly: "Look out, Jack!

  17. Two tries at the left wing and the whistle shrilled the end of the third period and the teams changed goals.

  18. As he swung into sight, the distant whistle shrilled again; far off in the distance voices sent up cries of "Head him off!

  19. But she--" The voice of Margot shrilled out and cut into her words.

  20. Then her voice, uplifting in a panic, shrilled out a wild appeal for doctor, servants--help of any kind.

  21. Thither came The bold Sir Referee, and shrilled abroad The tremulous, momentary 'touch.

  22. Yale's goal was in danger when the saving whistle for the third quarter shrilled out.

  23. The whistle shrilled out, and the Harvard back, running, sent the yellow pigskin sailing well down the field.

  24. She shrilled and shrewed her firm conviction that her son was a fool and worse because he had neither the consideration nor the silly sense of a fool's solicitude for a hard-worked mother.

  25. Even elderly matrons and greybeards with a foot in the grave screeched and shrilled their joy in the spectacle.

  26. People swarmed, and a raucous clamor shrilled along the tightly packed streets and alleys.

  27. Alarms shrilled in Hodak's mind as he recognized the person speaking with Ram.

  28. The mother came into the brick-paved yard and shrilled 'Paul!

  29. Next time I come," I shrilled at him, "the letter will be there.

  30. A knot of country boys, gabbling at one another like starlings, shrilled a cheer as we came rattling over a stone bridge beneath which a stream shallowly washed its bank of osiers.

  31. She turned herself about and shrilled out a strange word or two to some one who had gone before.

  32. From the swamp arose a noxious vapor whenever the sun exposed itself; tree-toads shrilled incessantly.

  33. Barclay nodded, and the woman shrilled again: "Don't let him do it, men.

  34. And still the penny-whistle voice shrilled clear a moment over the turgid outpouring of muddy minds: "The vast crime, the unparalleled lunacy of war!

  35. But before that tremor could shiver up the branches to him the hum of the living dynamo which was closing round his body shrilled up arcs of pure intensity into a thundering silence.

  36. The little anxious voices had shrilled into vehemence now, all of them chattering together in their queer, soft, rustling whispers.

  37. It deepened upon the silence, sharpened and shrilled until the thin blade of it was vibrating in the center of his innermost brain.

  38. The whispers shrilled a little, and the boldest among his watchers ran almost at his elbow, twittering their queer, broken speech in hushed syllables whose familiarity still bothered him with its haunting echo of words he knew.

  39. A cricket shrilled persistently above the chorus of the frogs and the throb of the hand-drum and the chanting.

  40. Behind them shuffled and pranced a vast mass of warriors, behind whom again several hundred women shrilled and wriggled in the mighty chorus.

  41. And people do say that for some time afterward, Kiddie Katydid shrilled a slightly different ditty.

  42. And he solemnly shrilled the chorus more rapidly than ever.

  43. But Kiddie Katydid usually laughed at those faint-hearted ones; and often he shrilled his Katy did, Katy did, more loudly than before, just to show them that he was not afraid.

  44. For a long moment they conferred together in low voices, while the wind shrilled fiercely in the cluster of their spear-blades.

  45. Well, I ain't going to wait here all night," shrilled the Kanaka woman impatiently.

  46. Your cart is already full," shrilled the old woman.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrilled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.