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Example sentences for: shrill

How can you use “shrill” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

One hates to use a sexist's favorite word, but she came off as shrill.
The character of Carolyn is so shrill as to constitute a libel on the female sex, but there isn't a second when Bening sends the woman up.
Second, it shows a shrill desperation on the part of some reviewers.
Penderecki cranks up 19 th -century Baroque-style rhetoric into something both stentorian and shrill.
Reed argued that the religious right needs to retreat from the shrill language used by Bauer and Dobson, and to abandon radical positions--such as their insistence on a constitutional amendment banning abortion--in favor of more popular, piecemeal solutions.