Shrilly
['ʃrɪli]
Definition
(adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.
(a.) Somewhat shrill.
Edited by Jeanne
Examples
- The night--its silence--its rest, was rent in twain by a savage, a sharp, a shrilly sound that ran from end to end of Thornfield Hall. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As we left the room, we heard his pen travelling shrilly over the foolscap. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- One day as they were walking along the lane, they saw a robin sitting on the top twig of a bush, singing shrilly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a bleak and boisterous night and the wind whistled shrilly down the long street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Jeanne