SHRILL

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shrill I. adjectiv

1. ascuţit, strident, asurzitor, pătrunzător, ţipător.

2. insistent, pisălog (cu o plângere, o acuzaţie).

shrill II. verb A. tranzitiv

(şi to shrill out) a ţipa, a striga cu glas ascuţit / strident.

shrill II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a ţipa, a scoate ţipete ascuţite / stridente.

2. (despre un sunet) a fi strident / ascuţit.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

My uncle waved his whip in the air with a shrill view-halloa.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he spoke, a woman’s shrill scream—a scream which vibrated with a frenzy of horror—burst from the thick, green clump of bushes in front of us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the late afternoon we reached the margin of the lake, and as we emerged from the bush and saw the sheet of water stretching before us our native friends set up a shrill cry of joy and pointed eagerly in front of them.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The socman sprang back, looking to left and to right for some stick or stone which might serve him for weapon; but finding none, he turned and ran at the top of his speed for the house, blowing the while upon a shrill whistle.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, they soon returned, and one of them, who ventured so far as to get a full sight of my face, lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill but distinct voice, Hekinah degul: the others repeated the same words several times, but then I knew not what they meant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I would give them D.! which so excited and gratified Mr. Micawber, that he ran with a glass of punch into my bedroom, in order that Mrs. Micawber might drink D., who drank it with enthusiasm, crying from within, in a shrill voice, Hear, hear!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Sport!” she cried, with shrill contempt and anger.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It struck upon his shoulder, and hurled him, crushed and screaming, to the ground, while Alleyne, recalled to his senses by these shrill cries in his very ear, staggered on to his feet, and gazed wildly about him.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean—then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

His wife was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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