Get to know Strident better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like blatant or cacophonous.
Strident meaning
- Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.
- Grating or obnoxious.
- Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
Synonyms of Strident
Using Strident
- The main meaning on this page is: Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding. | Grating or obnoxious. | Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
- Useful related words include: blatant, cacophonous, raucous, imperative.
- In the example corpus, strident often appears in combinations such as: more strident, the strident, strident in.
Context around Strident
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Strident
- In this selection, "strident" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seamlessly, prompting, power, opposition, anti and criticism stand out and add context to how "strident" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about his strident opposition to and all the strident charges of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "strident" sits close to words such as abacha, acetate and adl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with strident
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gaining momentum, their attacks grew more strident. (7 words)
The White House on Monday was even more strident. (9 words)
He once asserted that he was a ‘product of Canada’, prompting strident criticism from the SLP. (16 words)
The irony is that an increasingly strident discussion surrounding the gay-rights movement has made “Heartstopper” feel as if it’s leaning into a cultural debate simply by approaching young love in such a tender, matter-of-fact manner. (39 words)
Afghe believes, due to Iran’s more strident anti-Western policies under President Ebrahim Raisi and the dominance of radical factions in parliament, Trump would be even more determined to escalate his “maximum pressure” campaign on the country. (38 words)
The Australian government, while not as strident as its peer across the Tasman, has held concerns about how deposit rates are set and how banks delay applying increased rates to savers in response to Reserve Bank rate rises. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Also, of all the candidates only one candidate has been seamlessly strident in canvassing the audacity of his pedigree and regards for facts and figures for which he has repeatedly beckoned on Nigerians to “go and verify”.
For the migrant generation, conversely, the claim to castelessness has deep transnational roots, drawing from the strident opposition to reservations in India.
He once asserted that he was a ‘product of Canada’, prompting strident criticism from the SLP.
IDF is now working to plug its warnings into the emergency alerting system built into iPhones and Android devices, which power strident push notifications for and kidnappings in California and other places.
Moreover for a strident advocate of realism, which recognises that states ultimately operate on power, he failed to see that no number of bombings could force the Vietnamese to come for negotiations.
The assault on the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution have been persistent and more strident over the last three years.
The centrist Casey, Jr., in 2006, attacked Santorum, a strident social conservative known for his anti-gay views, as being too far to the right.
The Eagle Online recalls that he has been very strident in his call for the modification of the policy that has led to protests.
The irony is that an increasingly strident discussion surrounding the gay-rights movement has made “Heartstopper” feel as if it’s leaning into a cultural debate simply by approaching young love in such a tender, matter-of-fact manner.
The party’s gender plan became a key issue for some of then-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s most strident critics.
The strident anti-US commentariat is a curious mix at this point of shills for foreign powers, egoists who can’t bare to be wrong, and anti-capitalist ideologues talking their book.
They also lie, as you say, in France’s “dogmatic insistence on racial assimilation, secularism and one-size-fits-all identity”, which has become even more strident since the threat of Islamism from the 1990s.
Two of France’s largest unions representing police officers released a joint statement on Friday, which with strident language said the rule of law must be restored “by all means… as quickly as possible”.
With all the strident charges of ethnic discrimination in a country like Guyana – we’ve always been tethering on the edge of ethnic/racial conflicts.
Afghe believes, due to Iran’s more strident anti-Western policies under President Ebrahim Raisi and the dominance of radical factions in parliament, Trump would be even more determined to escalate his “maximum pressure” campaign on the country.
Gaining momentum, their attacks grew more strident.
Last month, I again sent college presidents and campus administrators our annual message about protecting Jewish students and managing a safer and more equitable campus—but this year’s message is much more strident.
The Australian government, while not as strident as its peer across the Tasman, has held concerns about how deposit rates are set and how banks delay applying increased rates to savers in response to Reserve Bank rate rises.
The White House on Monday was even more strident.
When it came to speaking about his strident opposition to 'Acht na Gaeilge' he could still acknowledge his respect for the fluency in Irish of his political opponents Patsy McGlone and Bríd Rodgers.
Common combinations with strident
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- more strident 11×
- the strident 7×
- strident in 5×
- increasingly strident 5×
- as strident 5×
- strident and 5×
- most strident 4×
- strident voices 4×
- strident as 3×
- and strident 3×