high-pitched

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Recent Examples of high-pitched The Nashville singer-songwriter waited a full day with the high-pitched, pulsing sound before calling her doctor to check her ears. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025 Sounds can also be high-pitched or very low and can come and go or maintain a more constant presence. Daryl Austin, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2025 Emergency vehicle sirens are high-pitched, and the rumblings from large trucks are lower-pitched. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025 For example, pain cries are often loud, high-pitched and harsh to grab the attention of listeners and elicit aid. Katarzyna Pisanski, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2025 But the sound was really high-pitched and sounded more like an anxious small dog. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2024 Emergency vehicle sirens are high-pitched, and the rumblings from large trucks are lower-pitched. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025 Seyfried’s voice gets conspiratorially high-pitched. Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2025 For example, pain cries are often loud, high-pitched and harsh to grab the attention of listeners and elicit aid. Katarzyna Pisanski, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high-pitched
Adjective
  • Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2025
  • As such, The Studio is shrill and talky, its chaotic scenes sparked by random performers like Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, Olivia Wilde and Sarah Polley, all of whom want something from Remick.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025

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“High-pitched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-pitched. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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