Strident is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRIDENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• loud, grating
• (of a sound) loud and harsh; grating
• presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively forceful way
• Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
• conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
• of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f\', `s\', `z\', or `th\' in both `thin\' and `then\')
• being sharply insistent on being heard
• unpleasantly loud and harsh
• loud and harsh
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• shrill

Words related to STRIDENT

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Words that contain STRIDENT

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How to use STRIDENT in a sentence

• But the trio of voyagers had lived too long near the coast not to recognize a fog-siren when they heard its strident call.
• A stout, masculine-looking female with a strident voice, is presumably Mrs.
• Back of them the whistle of the factory shrieked a strident announcement of disaster.
• From somewhere, muffled at first, but ultimately faintly strident, rose a prolonged wail that seemed to issue from the very earth.
• Then loud upon the stillness, broke the strident note of the telephone bell.
• Again came the call, this time more strident and commanding.
• I breathed his vulgar odor and heard his strident cry shaking the air.
• The Indians set off across the beach and up the bank, working themselves up with their strident, brutish cries.
• At the grotto he paused and hid himself, for the strident voice of the giant could be heard within.
• But that strident voice, edged with malice, had stirred bitter memories.
• At midnight the river front is alive with cheerful and strident voices.
• His strident voice could be heard extoling the merits of his wares.
• As its strident whirring continued her captor came again to her side, and with rudeness aided her to the seat of what she took to be a small car.
• It is at that moment, in that mysterious borderland of sleeping and waking, that the strident and compelling sound of the bugle falls upon the unwilling ear.
• Out of the sea came the hoarse, strident cry of the sea-lion, and the walrus, and the hairy seal.
• There was no strident steam whistle from factory or train to assault the ear, no rumble of passing cabs or street cars.
• It was as if one of the voices from below became strident in the determination to be adequately heard, to make its due effect.
• Now and then above the monotonous and sleepy rhythm, a song, harsh and strident like a roar, like the scream of one who falls with his body run through.
• The strident vigour of the applause showed no diminution.
• The mournful song of the principal melody appears presently in the strings, then returns to the funeral trip and to the strident chords.
• Some hours later Adjutant Marcassin comes forward, a lantern in his hand, and in a strident voice calls the roll.
• Then, his voice, always somewhat hollow, rang with strident tones.
• Now she rested in idleness, most of her crew taking their pleasure ashore, a Sabbath calm pervading her amid the strident activities going forward on every hand.
• In shrill strident voices each was crying out the virtues of his own beast, and abusing that of his neighbour.
• It was long before I could disentangle individual voices from the wild chaos of strident theories that surrounded me.
• Some of the most strident voices among living nationalist poets have found an unexpected note of tenderness when they sang their home province.
• Henry had just reached the hallway of his home when the phone summoned him with its strident demand to be answered.
• She looked so mild and gentle that it was surprising to hear her speak with a voice that was as strident and solemn as that of some old evangelist.

Similar words containing STRID without suffix ent

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