At a turn of the road he was aroused from this profitable meditation by a shriek, the shrillness of which told him that it was a woman's.
Men and women of Man," he said, in a voice that rose to the shrillness of a cry, "the sentence of the court of the barony of the island is that this man shall be cut off from his people.
The screams had taken on a more determined note and a fiercer shrillness which the still house heard well and made the most of, but they were so far deadened for Feather that she began beneath her soft barrier to protest pantingly.
Their shrillness tearing through the utter soundlessness of the empty house brought back all her terrors and set her heart beating at a gallop.
As the chant grew in shrillness and the drums beat a devil's tattoo that set the muscles of the vast concourse of spectators twitching with excitement, the dancers became unnaturally still, not a spear wavered in its slope.
Seeing me, one of them nudged her neighbour to point me out, and grinned knowingly, and then drowned her sister wives in a howl of peculiar shrillness and poignancy.
After listening for a few moments, they could clearly hear, above the roar and tumult out of doors, this shout repeated; and that with a shrillness and energy, which denoted that it came from some person in great distress or terror.
Her voice rose to a shrillness that made David look to see that the door between them and Lucy was securely closed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrillness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: edge; sharpness; stridor
