Sentence examples for shrill singing from inspiring English sources

They hang out in the hotel's bar (featuring some rather incongruous contemporary furniture, at odds with the elaborate sets of Alfred Schatz), listening to the shrill singing of Mama's trampy daughter, Lana (Kelley Swindall), while her bartending brother Lawrence David Nashh) makes goo-goo eyes at the piano player (Ben Reno).

Or, given my hatred of the show Annie (I hate shrill singing kids)., it could be: "Annie?

She was based upon opera divas in general (according to Hergé's perception), Hergé's Aunt Ninie (who was known for her "shrill" singing of opera), and, in the post-war comics, on Maria Callas.

Well, if you've never seen this segment before, let's just say it involves a lot of shrill singing, white body suits, and a 100% guarantee the audience member will return to his/her seat looking way worse than before.

Stephen Holden from The New York Times gave it a positive review, stating "filmed with abrupt, swooping camera movements that accentuate the singer's flouncing, slightly ungainly style of dancing, Madonna Live vividly captures the contradictory elements that have made the performer into a cultural icon in spite of a shrill, limited singing voice.

Adult male crickets start singing (a shrill sound made by rubbing the fore-wings together to attract mates) a few days postemergence, indicating that they are sexually active.

And what about those tables of shrill nobodies I recently witnessed singing "Happy Birthday?" Might Mr. Jones be in the position to put something in the rule book making that a disciplinary offense?

But downloading choirboys singing Christmas carols definitely helps – their shrill, piping voices disturb the dust in the basement of your soul and excite vague feelings of sadness and regret, which might generously be called religious in tone.

It's been amazing to see so much wildlife flourish on a site that was previously household waste: we have cuckoos and nightingales singing, peregrines and short-eared owls hunting, skylarks, shrill carder bees and adders out in the sun – and even a pod of porpoises in the Thames estuary.

The crane's cables sang a shrill tune as Enterprise descended to the deck.

Ms. Green, as the Princess, sang a shrill, slowly repeating figure, accompanied by wind writing in the spirit of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and dirgelike strings, piano and percussion.