Shrill example sentences

There was a shrill whistle and Tilloo found himself the centre of attention.EMPEROR Aurangzeb banned the playing of a musical instrument called pungi in the royal residence for it had a shrill unpleasant sound.The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening when the frost Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills The cricket s song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost; The grasshopper s among some grassy hills.