Sara could hear the man talking to Jeffrey as she got closer, his tone of voice shrill and demanding.

Then the shrill tone of a priority call broke the silence.

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

He was pointing at something there, jabbering in shrill tones.

"We do not need to adopt a high, shrill tone on this issue," the official said.

His computer started buzzing once again, this time with a higher, shriller tone.

Her voice tapes were off key, I noticed; she had a kind of shrill, whiney tone.

A shrill tone snapped Peart's focus back to his own console.

At one moment her sweet voice had risen to shrill tones.

"Do not say that," returned the old man, in his shrill tone.