She opened her mouth and sang a single, piercing note.

Topaz smiled at him and sang a single piercing note.

Mary sang a single piercing note and Steel convulsed, the gun flying from his hand.

My head was full of sound, a high, piercing note that seemed to ring from the desert and reach the terrace in waves.

Accordingly Good, who, from long practice at sea, has a fine piercing note, groped his way down the passage and set to work.

It rose and fell, and ended on a high piercing note.

Her cries rose on a high, piercing note.

So both the humans and the toys were all listening hard when the first piercing notes came tumbling out of the dark toward them.

In New York or Chicago, for instance, it was a piercing note indeed.

The strong piercing notes of the horns dominated the song.