The word "shrill" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that is used to describe a sound that is loud, high-pitched and often unpleasant. For example, you might say, "The alarm blared a shrill sound throughout the house."
The Olympic Stadium loathed Maradona last night and the loathing was shrill and long.
In the village, I lie awake each night, unable to sleep over the monsoon rain which clatters against the thin roof, the incessant chirping of crickets; and the shrill cock-a-doodle-doos that send me stumbling out of bed and into a breakfast of mashed pumpkin, watery daal and jackfruit.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.55am BST05:55 Lots of rather shrill complaints from Republicans about how "disrespectful" Joe Biden was during the debate.
They should kill the lot of you!" So shrill and so loud were her screams that they brought down a jagged piece of glass that had clung on to the top of the window.
They're all operating at such a hysterically shrill frequency that even being in the same building as them will ruin your blood pressure.
And if perusing that lineup you're wondering whether Churches adhere in any way to the label's "sound" and their seeming penchant for high female vocals, shrill synths and hooky melodies, wonder no more.
Every time I hear Get Lucky on the radio, I'm struck by how warm and deep it sounds compared to the shrill, redlined urgency of modern pop production.
Going into 2013, however, the PM's projection of himself as calm, kindly and above all pragmatic is strained by the record of a government that increasingly appears shrill, ungenerous and doctrinaire.
Attacks on the government were relatively restrained; Mr Cameron has at times sounded shrill when taking on Mr Brown.
With the politicking already growing shrill, the next hundred days promise to be unusually rowdy by the normally polite, albeit quietly cut-throat, standards of Iranian politics.It is true that the democratic elements of Iran's peculiar system, which seeks to represent both God and man, are tightly constrained.
Such threats are still far beyond North Korea's abilities, but they evoke shrill responses from conservatives in both Seoul and Washington, and stern comments from our military leaders.
