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High-pitched   /haɪ-pɪtʃt/   Listen
High-pitched

adjective
1.
Used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency.  Synonym: high.
2.
Set at a sharp or high angle or slant.






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"High-pitched" Quotes from Famous Books



... steadily cut down, the gap perceptibly lessened; the specks showed larger with every backward glance till every dog was clearly visible. Shady was fleet but her speed was no match for Breed's and he would not leave her. The high-pitched sinister yelps sounded from behind him as the eager dogs closed up, putting forth every effort to end the race before the wolves reached the choppy badland breaks at the far edge of the flat. Shady's pace was lagging, and they gained the first gulch ...
— The Yellow Horde • Hal G. Evarts

... in his high-pitched voice. "I have read anecdotes about animals, and I know all them stories by heart. They look as if they could; but them beasts can't think, and the stories are all lies.—You be off and fetch that rifle before I send somebody else; and look ...
— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn

... how they had eaten. Oh, how they had eaten! He told him how nice all the Passover dishes were, and how sweet the wine. Fedoka listened attentively, and cast his eyes on Feitel's blouse. He was still thinking of "matzo." Suddenly there was a scream, and a cry in a high-pitched soprano: ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich

... Drew," she said in her high-pitched voice, "I suppose you have to take the children home in good season, or ...
— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose

... you one of the hounds on my track?" she demanded, in a high-pitched whisper. April looked at ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley


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