shrillness

She had to fight to keep shrillness out of her voice.

The shrillness of it told her just how afraid she really was.

A hysterical shrillness as he worked himself up to the shot.

His voice had risen almost to a note of shrillness.

This time there was an icy shrillness to the question.

Then why should there be such shrillness in Pilgrim's own shadow?

A low whistle started from the kitchen, climbing in shrillness.

His voice was steady, but it suggested the shrillness of panic.

But as it is, her shrillness keeps us at a wary distance.

The shrillness left his voice and he added, "We are tired.

The shrillness should have warned him, but awareness came a fraction of a second too late.

Rap cried, and was ashamed at the shrillness of his voice.

Lionel ordered, but without giving over to shrillness, and keeping his eyes down.

The bell stopped ringing, and a man spoke with sudden shrillness.

But I noticed that the shrillness had left her voice and she seemed a little calmer now.

She sounded angry and inflexible to the point of shrillness.

There was a kind of serenity in their opinions, an appeal to history without shrillness.

Her hands were steady and her voice had lost the edge of shrillness.

Such shrillness makes the rest of their arguments, even those supported by actual data, all too easy to ignore.

She meant to convey force and was appalled by the weak shrillness of her voice.

It might have been played once upon your return home, at which point everyone within earshot complained about its shrillness.

Shrillness was never a problem; lack of shine sometimes was.

Frost put shrillness into the rumble of traffic and machines.

The shrillness was a scream that tore at the inner ear.

Suddenly, she heard the ear-piercing shrillness of her smoke detector.