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Meanings of strident in English
Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry.
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Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
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Examples for "sibilant"
Examples for "sibilant"
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The winds wailed sibilant and agonizing messages into the ears of Ootah:
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He heard the soft sibilant sound of a breath drawn quickly in.
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He hardly waited for the sibilant assurance before putting back the receiver.
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There was a low, sibilant rise and fall-thebreathing of the creature.
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Mortals. The last word turned sibilant, breathed out over a long while.
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She whispered abruptly, stopping on a spirant sound.
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Thus F came to be the representative of the unvoiced labiodental spirant instead of that for the bilabial voiced spirant.
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He thinks that the guttural element in x was a spirant, and therefore different from ch, which is an aspirate.
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Orgos produced a pair of neatly rolled parchments and answered, with a Cherrati hand gesture, I am Alberro Spirant and this is my apprentice, Geoffrey.
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Go ahead, try that pharyngeal fricative yourself-butmaybe practice with some tongue twisters first.
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Luckily, dialect coach Erik Singer is here to help you distinguish a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative from a uvular plosive.
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It creaks open on ancient hinges, its bottom edge scraping against the floor with the fricative sound of wood against wood.
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The analytical part of her linguist's brain began to collate, to catalog the distinctive staccato fricatives, but Carrianne forestalled her.
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"Thiff is our cue to go." When he attempted a fricative, his busted lips blew a fine spray of blood.
Usage of strident in English
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Whether they can bring more strident members along is a different question.
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A strident English nationalist but someone at home with modern German literature.
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The government put it through under urgency, amid strident protest from National.
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Today's papers were equally strident - and optimistic - in their support.
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Above the music he heard the childishly strident voice of the flapper:
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The same menace was repeated in more strident tones on January 29th:
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Very weak crystals!' she said dismissively, now imitating Irisis's rather strident tones.
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Yet the settings never overshadow the songs: strident, confident, lush with melodies.
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As the rake travelled over the gravel a regular, strident sound arose.
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Once more he heard the high, strident droning of the Thunder Bird.
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Over the noise of gunshots a strident voice rang out: Cease fire!
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At midnight the river front is alive with cheerful and strident voices.
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Too strident, as if by overselling a denial I'd confirmed the opposite.
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The noise was growing louder, with a strident humming undercurrent of expectation.
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They asserted themselves as the most strident critics of Reagan's Africa policies.
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It's strident and dramatic and there's something classically East European about it.
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Strident across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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