How to Use strident in a Sentence

strident

adjective

• The strident tone in his voice revealed his anger.
• The strident tone from the Fed boss set off alarm bells on Wall Street, and stocks dropped during the speech.
  — Charles Riley, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• The sound of Washington might be the cheery chime of a closing Metro door or the strident chant of a protest march.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• After three decades of strident, self-righteous hypocrisy, that part of the game is over.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2021
• Lee doesn't pull any punches on either side, and the film can feel strident at times.
  — Elliott Smith, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• If anything, Tai was even more strident than Trump had been.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• Get it right before Mars issues a strident call to wake up and smell the coffee.
  — SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• Not all ranchers are as strident as McIrvin, and many struggle over what to do.
  — Josh Adler, National Geographic, 17 Aug. 2020
• On the last day of April, strident Mars arrives in Aries taking you through to early June.
  — Debbie Frank, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• Mion emerged from the hiding spot the following morning to find the strident sounds of war replaced with the sweet smell of cake.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• The message from some of the most strident quorum-breakers to their colleagues was clear: Don’t fall for it.
  — Patrick Svitek and Cassandra Pollock, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Sep. 2021
• Bong could have been more strident in his social critique but hasn’t.
  — Mark Kennedy, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2019
• Being the lead singer of a strident rock band has virtues both public and personal.
  — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 3 Mar. 2022
• But not all were thrilled; some found Jonas too strident or eccentric.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• At the start of the sanctions against Russia, one of the most strident statements came from Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange.
  — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2022
• Trump and Vance will be strident and polarizing in their rhetoric.
  — Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2024
• Romney had been one of Trump’s most strident critics in the 2016 election, calling him a phony and a fraud.
  — Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
• Yeah, there’s a good debate to be had on this, but this group has already come out strident and ridiculous instead of.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2023
• The episode isn’t subtle, but it’s neither strident nor self-righteous.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
• But then the show became a strident piece of agitprop that strained credulity.
  — Omid Khazani and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• Platonov is among the least strident of Soviet writers.
  — Patrick Kurp, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
• Obama's endorsement of Biden on Wednesday was more strident than in the past.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2020
• Her resilience has a heartfelt core that keeps her from seeming too shrill or strident.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2023
• But such is the tenor of these times that change may well be coming to Mississippi, a cradle of some of the most strident civil rights protests in the 1960s.
  — Wenei Philimon, USA TODAY, 13 June 2020
• Other Twitter users were quick to point out the gym’s swift pivot from its strident Pride Month displays in June.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• These three grow increasingly cartoonish and strident over the course of the opera.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 18 June 2019
• Frank Schubert’s strident views put his sister, who is gay and the mother of two sons, in a tough position.
  — Hannah Wileystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• Despite the strident protestations of Democrats, there is no sign Tata will be leaving.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 4 Aug. 2020
• In large-scale works his sound was typically strident and bold.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2021
• The transgressive tingle of such sentences has dulled a little over time; the contemporary reader may find their strident fetishism more than a touch distasteful.
  — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024