shriek in English
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1. Then he let out a piercing shriek.
2. Ella let out a piercing shriek.
3. These emit a piercing shriek when pressed.
4. She let out a piercing shriek.
5. Just at that moment, Mahmud started to shriek.
6. 5 The ladies shriek and swoon at his every word.
7. She gave a little shriek of delight.
8. He suddenly let out a piercing shriek.
9. The screaming and shriek were noises in his head.
10. Then Tom gave a shriek beside me.
11. A piercing shriek cut through the silence.
12. A sudden terrible shriek froze the passenger to the spot.
13. Anne began to shriek and jerked her arm away.
14. There was shriek of laughter from the direction of Sarah's room.
15. Snow muffles the shriek of metal and the rasp of motion.
16. Nothing beats that shriek of delight or gorgeous gurgle of joy.
17. He gave a loud shriek and dropped the pan.
18. The ladies shriek and swoon at his every word.
19. He raised his hands and let out a piercing shriek.
20. She fell to the floor with a shriek of pain.
21. With a strangled, gargling shriek, Carradine fell over, frothing at the mouth, arms waving.
22. The Ford behind had also disengaged itself, not caring about the shriek of metal.
23. If I promise not to shriek or have hysterics, will that do?
24. There was a shriek in the courtroom as the verdict was read .
25. The magnetic field that led to its discovery had vanished at the moment of that radio shriek.
26. I wanted to shriek, every time I went to the mailbox and there was a Charlottesville postmark.
27. 20 Yell louder , wench , shriek , wail, but it will not dull the voice of truth.
28. That was when, with a glass-cracking shriek, the harpy brought him down from behind.
29. The special feature of chirp radar is that it does not have a fixed carrier frequency during each shriek.
30. 24 I wanted to shriek, every time I went to the mailbox and there was a Charlottesville postmark.
31. Shout, call, cry (out), scream, roar, yell, howl, shriek, clamour, bawl, holler (informal) He Bellowed the information into the telephone.
32. As long as they take that rejection seriously, and continue to shriek their desolation, they are not diminished by it.
33. Gently she poured some on to his chest and the boy let out a high animal shriek.
34. 14 The thief was bited by the keeper dog so hard that he gave a bloodcurdling shriek.
35. There was a general gasp and Todger let out a nervous shriek of laughter that sounded horribly like mockery.
36. The Cicada's deafening shriek is the sound of summer, and humans have been drawn to it for thousands of years
37. She gave a little shriek of surprise, then felt herself tipping over and grabbed at his jacket to save herself.
38. The industry did not shriek too loudly: the strength of demand over the next few years kept everyone reasonably happy.
39. The clear, calm, cogent facts and inferences of the philosopher cannot be met successfully by the half-suppressed shriek of the mere Biblicist
40. 9 Sometimes it would modulate to a hum and at others rise to a shriek according to how hard his heart was pumping.
41. Forster reached for his mask, just as the hissing gas noise sounded right on top of him, ending with a little shriek.
42. They fling up their arms, tear their hair, with the wildest gesticulations of grief, and shriek forth the name of the deceased.” —Eastern Customs in Bible Lands.
43. Unconscious of his wife 's shriek , the old man smiled faintly , put out his hands like a sightless man , and dropped , a senseless heap , to the floor .
44. 26 He owns a cacao plantation in this swath of untamed cloud forest in northern Venezuela, where ocelots dart under towering saman trees and howler monkeys shriek at visitors.
45. The Ambergris trilogy is made up of three novels, each of which has become a cult classic in its own right: City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch
46. 17 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.
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48. Caterwaul: 1 v utter shrieks, as of cats Synonyms: yowl Type of: pipe , pipe up , shriek , shrill utter a shrill cry n the yowling sound made by a cat Type of: cry the characteristic utterance of an animal
49. ‘He smiled, watching Ferik's skin redden and become Blotchy from the rain.’ ‘Her voice had risen to a shriek, and her usually beautiful face was red, Blotchy, and streaked with tears.’ ‘Failure to do so will cause an uneven Blotchy appearance on your teak furniture after you apply the sealant.’
50. Shriek: An Afterword is a sinister and bewitching tour-de-force.” ― Elizabeth Hand, bestselling author of Mortal Love “Here is a desert island book, a tale you can lose yourself in for days, a novel of character in which the setting--the magnificently gritty city-state named Ambergris--proves as the light fails to be the finest character