She whistled shrilly on her fingers, and rose to greet her brother, whom Og was still menacing, as he advanced towards her with staccato steps.
The sparrows that had sat with fluffed-up feathers in corners sheltered from the gales, were suddenly busy and shrilly vocal, chirruping and dragging about straws, and flying from limb to limb of the trees with twigs in their beaks.
Someone had whistled shrilly behind them, and she wheeled, to see Monseigneur and a Red Cross orderly beckoning and signalling, standing on a heap of rubbish on the outskirts of the Plaine.
Through it all the brothers were dimly aware of one fact uncle Phaeton was shrilly bidding them cling fast and have courage.
The bell that rang so shrillythrough the house as Kleophea's father staggered to his room gave the household very definite information as to the mother's mood.
Mrs. Wheeler turned on the sofa, and detecting Gussie in the act of using his mouth as a moneybox, upbraided him shrilly and sent him into a corner.
One of the officers was shrillyblowing his whistle for reinforcements.
She laughed shrilly as she staggered toward her father.
Josephine's shriek of despair rang shrilly on the air, and Captain Demere himself made a lunge at the animal, as she sped swiftly past, with a seductive cry of "Puss!
It was a bleak and boisterous night, and the wind whistled shrilly down the long street.
As we left the room we heard his pen travelling shrilly over the foolscap.
The iron tramp of the steeds rang shrilly from underneath the arched gateway; Hildebrand stood by the platform; he bade them good speed.
A smart blow on the back announced a somewhat uncourteous intruder, whilst a loud and discordant laugh struck shrilly on his ear.
His companion was fishing with a short, heavy rod from which time had dissolved the varnish, an ineffectual brass reel that complained shrilly whenever the lead was raised or lowered, and a thick, freely-knotted line.
He blew shrilly on a whistle from the beach, and Halvard dropped over the Gar's side into the tender.
A boy passing in the street beyond was shrilly whistling "Tammany.
With a quick motion of her hand she flung open the door, and leaning out, called shrillyfor the driver to stop.
Yet they went on playing night after night; the Snipe shrilly blessing or cursing his luck, the Scotsman phlegmatic as a bolster.
At any rate, shrilly crying her name, Obed sprang up and discharged his musket.
Hostlers running through the barn called shrilly back and forth, and de Spain springing up the stairs to his room provided what he wanted for his hurried flight.
Miss Natty," she shrilly cried, "I want to know if you mean to stand here all day long?
But as I rolled under the stalks a bird rose near me and screamed shrilly in long-drawn cries of alarm, and several of its young, hunting for cover, set up a racket in the dead leaves on the ground.
He did not see Long Jim, so intent was he on looking up; but when the cockney drew a pistol he screamed shrilly and fled into the passage, his long queue sticking out behind like an attenuated pennant, so swift was his flight.
Somewhere far away, it might be in the gateway, two voices were loudly and shrilly shouting, quarrelling and scolding.
Fearful, despairing cries rose shrilly from the street, sounds which he heard every night, indeed, under his window after two o'clock.
He snarled shrilly through the little square hole in the cover, while his assailant, balked of her prey and furious with the smart of her wound, pounced once more upon the basket and strove to claw an entrance.
What a little self-conscious affected donkey I became, shrilly hee-hawing away; the centre of a simpering throng plying me with flattery.
I leaned back my head where I sat, shrilly and dismally laughing and laughing, until tears sprang pricklingly into my eyes.
I discovered Lady Pollacke was rather shrilly inquiring of me.
Uncle Isam, a dried old Negro of seventy years, shambled in patiently and placed the bucket carefully upon the stones, to be shrilly scolded by Aunt Polly for spilling a few drops on the floor.
Then her shriek of terror, fear, and agony rang shrilly through the house.
Dodo shrilly "gave notice," while the marmoset was dying in her napkin.
But Mary did not realize that she was the object of any one's attention, for the statuelike woman in black was shrilly insisting that she had had the maximum, nine louis, on the number 24.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrilly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
