SHRILLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrilly mean? 

• SHRILLY (adverb)
  The adverb SHRILLY has 1 sense:

1. in a shrill voice

  Familiarity information: SHRILLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHRILLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a shrill voice

Synonyms:

piercingly; shrilly

Context example:

she sang rather shrilly

Pertainym:

shrill (having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones)

 Context 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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As we left the room, we heard his pen travelling shrilly over the foolscap.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Because of the lying and very miserable white people," Zilla proclaimed shrilly.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He put his two forefingers between his teeth and whistled shrilly—a signal which was answered by a similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle of wheels and the clink of horses’ hoofs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So fast had she been running that she rolled along, now on her back, now on her side, as she struggled to stop, clawing gravel with her feet and crying shrilly her hurt pride and indignation.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The chapman broke a rough jest as he passed, and the woman called shrilly to Alleyne to come and join them, on which the man, turning suddenly from mirth to wrath, began to belabor her with his cudgel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He stood so still that a squirrel, busy with its harvesting, ran down a pine close beside him, saw him suddenly and skipped back, scolding so shrilly that Beth looked up, espied the wistful face behind the birches, and beckoned with a reassuring smile.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was a bleak and boisterous night and the wind whistled shrilly down the long street.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All round, in the edge of the circle of the light, stood the castle servants, the soldiers who were to form the garrison, and little knots of women, who sobbed in their aprons and called shrilly to their name-saints to watch over the Wat, or Will, or Peterkin who had turned his hand to the work of war.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)