"shrill sound" is correct and can be used in written English.
It describes a high-pitched and piercing noise or tone. Example: The alarm system emitted a shrill sound, causing everyone in the building to cover their ears.
Socrates notices that their conversation is competing with the shrill sound of cicadas.
On cue, a splat and hiss of shrill sound suggested a fissure of some kind.
Her colleagues and I turned, startled by the shrill sound of it.
"It's more of a roar than an ear-piercing shrill sound," says Gina Carnell, the shoot's manager.
Shame!" As the demonstrators marched, many blew whistles, a shrill sound that competed with music from a 25-piece band.
Men being cut to ribbons by gunfire, jaws being blown away – done by suggestion; and the constant shrill sound of shellfire?
Very high sounds, shrill sounds, it's almost like tinsel to hear, whispers.
Sommer's shrill sounds from within his coffin was not typical funeral music, but surely a sign of his good nature and sense of humor, qualities referees are rarely accused of possessing.
Sirens of Titan might not feature a tune as such, but there is dazzlement of a different kind thanks to the craft and precision of this thrilling montage of harsh, shrill sounds and rhythmic judder – not to mention the stereo panning, which alone deserves a medal.
In addition to being bombarded with the bright lights, chemical smells, and shrill sounds of a hospital's intensive care unit, preemies are largely deprived of the sensations they'd get in the womb, such as their mother's heartbeat and voice, says Amir Lahav, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
He made shrill sounds, like a mandrill.
