strident

How To Use strident In A Sentence

• People are put off by his strident voice.
• She comes across as very different from the stereotypes of the bitter single career woman or the strident female in power.
• In front the violin sang a strident tune, and the biniou snored and hummed, while the player capered solemnly, lifting high his heavy clogs. Tales of Unrest
• Most of the time his voice was loud and strident. Christianity Today
• Owing in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls.
• His bass is strident without encroaching, but never drives the rhythm; rather, it reacts to it.
• They are becoming increasingly strident in their criticism of government economic policy.
• Strident, assertive saddlebacks begin argumentative vocal duels, their staccato ‘Yak-yak - yak-yak’ in ever longer and louder volleys.
• A venerable and hitherto decorous old deacon of Roxbury not only left the church when the hated bass-viol began its accompanying notes, but he stood for a long time outside the church door stridently "caterwauling" at the top of his lungs. Sabbath in Puritan New England
• Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant -- Early Reviews of English Poets