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stridently

adv. In a strident manner.

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stridently

adv. in a strident manner; "the cheap clock ticked stridently"

Usage examples of "stridently".

The screen came up with a long list of Greekish and Latinate names, and the desk comm whistled stridently, both at the same moment.

Now they could hear excited shouting, telephones ringing stridently, the sound of approaching sirens in the street below.

Somehow undamaged in the holocaust, the windhorn was still making contact and its ululations were going on up to the sky, stridently clearing imaginary roads for the passage of Attaboy II—‘Pom-pim-pom-pam.

Somehow undamaged in the holocaust, the windhorn was still making contact and its ululations were going on up to the sky, stridently clearing imaginary roads for the passage of Attaboy II-'Pom-pim-pom-pam.

Yelling stridently to make himself heard, he ordered all except the two highest crosswalks cut.

Then the second cannon stridently exploded, its lead balls going down into the belly of the enemy ship, punching through the deck and into the powder magazine.

When the road dips again there are stretches of marshland that one instinctively dislikes, and indeed almost fears at evening when unseen whippoorwills chatter and the fireflies come out in abnormal profusion to dance to the raucous, creepily insistent rhythms of stridently piping bull-frogs.

An excited jay squawking a ra 92 caw added to the disturbance, then a willow tit stridently an- .