Sentence examples for shrill tone from inspiring English sources

It sounds like the shrill tone of personal offense.

The shrill tone of the campaign has helped polarize the country ethnically.

There was a certain shrill tone – though that may not be gender specific.

But the shrill tone of the discussion seems to be obscuring this basic point.

The increasingly shrill tone of the Indian government and media does nothing to aid their cause, however.

Recently, I winced and shivered my way through an apricot whose delicate blush belied its taut muscularity and shrill tone.

Those participating in the meetings have been sworn to discretion, creating a rare silence on both sides over an issue that is usually played out in shrill tones.

As poet and critic David Biespiel has noted in The Rumpus, in leading avant-gardists' shrill, tone-deaf refusal to acknowledge their own sociocultural, intellectual, and professional victories lies an "omen of the [postmodern poetry establishment's] own demise".

Teaching this summer in Beijing, I find the shrill tones of Western war hawks proclaiming an impending "China threat" to be surreal at best and absurd at worst.

He doesn't think of a collective hunt, but sees some elaborate group dance around a screaming monkey that always ends with the same shrill tones.

A loud siren or series of shrill tones go off if someone opens your vehicle's doors, hood or trunk.