| 1. | The bluff strident words struck the note sailors understood, and they cheered him lustily. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 2. | The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, coughing and laughing at the same time. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | I was surprised, therefore, when, one morning in June, as I sat reading the British Medical Journal after breakfast, I heard a ring at the bell, followed by the high, somewhat strident tones of my old companion's voice. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | _In strident discord peasants and townsmen of Orange and Green factions sing_ Kick the Pope _and_ Daily, daily sing to Mary. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | We hear this strident and lilting refrain which we should say had been lighted up by a phosphorescent gleam, and which seems to have been flung into the forest by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife-. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |