ear-piercing
extremely harsh and irritating to the ear: ear-piercing noise.
Origin of ear-piercing
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How to use ear-piercing in a sentence
Is it true that I am the only person who has ever been interviewed twice [ear-piercing whistle] by Playboy?
Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview | Alex Belth | February 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAll that Huck Finn innocence was wiped out with one ear-piercing pig-like squeal.
I once even got detention for telling a new male classmate with an ear piercing he probably had AIDS.
Then with one loud ear-piercing shriek thrown back on the wind—see!
The Mayor's Wife | Anna Katherine GreenHis rhetoric was set forth with an ear-piercing elocution, and a voice that sometimes crashed like cannon.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI | Robert Louis Stevenson
Bill Hayes, he of the gray mustache and the ear-piercing faller's cry, was a "long-stake" man.
The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. SinclairNo one has ever more skilfully communicated his own disenchantment; no one ever blown a more ear-piercing note of sadness.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books | Robert Louis StevensonBut he jumped up, and ran down to the shore, and sent an ear-piercing yell across the water.
Peter Cotterell's Treasure | Rupert Sargent Holland
British Dictionary definitions for ear piercing
the making of a hole in the lobe of an ear, using a sterilized needle, so that an earring may be worn fastened in the hole
so loud or shrill as to hurt the ears
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