shrill

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• Unfortunately, the right’s shrill complaints about cancel culture obscure this far more present and complex problem.

• Hearing them without describing them as shrill or hysterical has proved to be a separate, but equally daunting, task.

• Memes have moved on from kitsch and community-forming to shrill and preachy.

• In the city, where the songbirds have to compete with cars, barking dogs, and construction, their calls were louder and more shrill.

• Behind a chorus of shrill insects, the pops of gunfire can sometimes be heard in the distance.

• “When I was doing press for Whitney, critics were commenting on my appearance, saying I was shrill, saying I was needy,” she says.

• We're so used to seeing in sitcoms the same relationship: the naggy, shrill wife who's constantly bickering with her husband.

• The noise in the stadium grew for every point he won, but the points he lost were greeted with shrill, desperate screams.

• Her voice was shrill with disbelief and choked with grief as she spoke to someone on her cell phone in Fujianese.

• Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf.

• "God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.