Usage examples (31)

• No account that I have seen of the stridulation of male insects shows that it is a challenge.
• His feet scraped the uneven floor, and his voice, beginning with a melodic stridulation, became the voice of a child:
• Whistles of derision and rising stridulation threatened to drown him out, but this time the specialist would not be denied.
• Sympathetic stridulation by those of like mind momentarily filled the room with the din of a hundred improperly tuned violas.