Usage examples (33)

• The emancipated ghosts floated in all directions, emitting their shrill and stridulous cries in the gleaming expanse.
• It was as if the sparkling tent of the heavens were a great bowl turned over the place, hushing its stridulous merriment, stifling its wild laughter and dry-throated...
• In passing through some parts where a good shower of rain has fallen, the stridulous piercing notes of the cicadae are perfectly deafening; a drab-colored cricket joins...
• Comes the Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart.