| shrill whistle | 1.05 | The kettle emitted a shrill whistle. | ||
| shrill cry | 0.66 | Her shrill cries are haunting. | ||
| shrill voice | 0.46 | Woolley parodied in a shrill voice. | ||
| shrill blast | 0.39 | The shrill blast of the train whistle calls us aboard. | ||
| shrill sound | 0.39 | The names blend to form a shrill humming sound. | ||
| shrill tone | 0.39 | The shrill tone of the campaign has helped polarize the country ethnically. | ||
| shrill noise | 0.33 | It sounded like a shrill noise. | ||
| shrill rhetoric | 0.33 | The current political climate also adds to the sometimes shrill rhetoric of advocacy groups. | ||
| shrill debate | 0.26 | The often shrill debate is colored with talk about defending the fatherland. | ||
| shrill laughter | 0.26 | She gave a burst of shrill laughter. | ||
| shrill scream | 0.26 | The sound of gunfire mingled with the shrill screams of the injured. |