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.

  • Above all, he wants us to see the star as misunderstood, under unfair attack from all sides--the women who demand something more than his sexual favors, the liberal media with its shrill feminists and snobby elitists.

  • The misgivings of scientists are particularly shrill in Frameshift , by Canadian sci-fi writer Robert J. Sawyer.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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