shriek

[US]/ʃriːk/
[UK]/ʃriːk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. & vi. emit a loud, sharp, piercing cry
n. a loud, sharp, piercing cry

Phrases & Collocations

a loud shriek

shriek in terror

a high-pitched shriek

Example Sentences

shrieks of fiendish laughter.

They were all shrieking with laughter.

the audience shrieked with laughter.

Suddenly he began to shriek loudly.

She shrieked in fear.

A sudden terrible shriek froze the passenger to the spot.

The boxers were goaded on by the shrieking crowd.

the wheels shrieked as the car sped away.

the answer shrieked at her all too clearly.

they shrieked and gibbered as flames surrounded them.

the patterned carpets shrieked at Blanche from the shabby store.

the engine coughed, wheezed, and shrieked into life.

This novel was writen in his later lifePip, a boy of the marshes, is being "raised by hand" by his shrieking harridan of an older sister and her seemingly doltish husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery.

But without gangliosides the txansparency of supernatant of injuried control erythrocytes is only 13.4% of the nounal value.The injuried erythrocytes shriek with spines on their surface.

Craniology, phrenology and eugenics, once-respectable fields of endeavour that are now regarded with a shudder, may shriek from time to time, but few sane people pay attention to them.

By now, the din from the corporate celebrants had reached sufficient decibels to muffle our shrieks at a butternut squash and parmesan velouté with the viscous tang of curdled milk.

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