Sentence examples for piercing cry from inspiring English sources

One night, a piercing cry awoke us.

His body went rigid and he cried a shrill, piercing cry.

McLean was not as harmonically byzantine as his model, and his tone had a distinctively piercing cry.

What made the lone, piercing cry of "You lie!" shocking was that it breached a previously secure barrier.

With every sigh and piercing cry, she switches from tangible sadness to palpable sexuality to regret and a simmering anger beneath the surface.

Given a one-off chance to tell the world what they think of how they are governed they have screamed a piercing cry of alienation and desperation.

They hear sudden, piercing cries — "Hard!

The soundtrack to the process was the piercing cries of pleading mothers.

She dotes on her husband, Edward IV, lets out piercing cries of grief at the death of her sons and views Richard's quest for the hand of her surviving daughter with aghast disbelief.

At one of their Carnegie concerts, Kronos brought in the Inuit throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, who has collaborated with them to create a work called "Nunavut," in which each member of the quartet improvises on Tagaq's low moans and piercing cries.

On Wednesday her broad strokes and tiny details were all in place, from the grand, piercing cries of her rendition of "Um Mitternacht," one of Mahler's Rückert Lieder, to the perfectly dark color of a single word — Tränen (tears) — in Schumann's "Schwere Abend".