Her voice had a high strident note that seldom varied its tone.

The woman was still weeping, and now a child joined her on a higher, more strident note.

Suddenly a loud horn blast pieced the air, a thin strident note pregnant with urgency.

It gave out a single and extremely strident note that echoed forbiddingly round the courtyard.

His voice took on a strident note, and the horses heard it.

The ship's alarm was sounding its strident note before he got there.

I put a strident note into my voice.

She ended on a strident note, looking as if she were desperate to escape the room.

Then he raised that horn he always carried at his side and blew a strident note on it.

"Shields are going," Delaney called, and this time there was a clear, strident note of panic in her voice.