| The commander seemed to become shriller and more strident the more I held my tongue in check and treated the board of inquiry with respect. |
| His voice lifted until it was its shriller, more natural falsetto. |
| The landlady grew all the shriller at that, and silenced my mother impatiently. |
| The shriller Govian sound and gunfire will, I suspect, leave little mark in the end. |
| There were voices, too, of shriller intonation, that might have proceeded from the throats of women. |
| The harder you blow or the smaller the hole, the shriller the whistle. |
