In this case, it sounded even more firm and strident than it had the previous time.

In any event, the London strings sounded distressingly hoarse and strident.

Dalgliesh was helping Meg Dennison into her jacket when the telephone rang, sounding unnaturally strident in the quiet room.

It is both wrong and stupid for a party to express its principles in ways that sound harsh or strident.

Afterwards Johnson was said to have regretted delivering the remarks, believing he sounded harsh and strident.

I asked, first surprised, but then remembering how he hadn't been himself lately, sneezing and coughing, sounding strident and intolerant.

Violins sounded weedy and strident in the upper register, and the overall tone was sluggish and lifeless.

He sounded alien and strident to my inexperienced ears.

She broke off singing when, even to -herself, her voice sounded harsh and strident.

I think that others should have asked them and then maybe they wouldn't have sounded strident, if there were more people asking the questions.