shriek
IPA: ʃrˈik
noun
- A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
- (UK, slang) An exclamation mark.
verb
- (intransitive) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
- (transitive) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
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Examples of "shriek" in Sentences
- Did he scream or shriek
- It's enough to make you shriek.
- The boy shrieked all of a sudden.
- He shrieked and fell down to the ground.
- One sharp wild shriek is heard – and all is still!
- The donkey can be heard shrieking loudly and stops.
- Suddenly in the distance Bilbo hears a shriek of distress.
- Carnage and it begin to fight but Shriek subdues the thing.
- But the shriek from the bed was not that of a man, but a boy.
- At daybreak birds rave and shriek and all heads turn to the sea.
- The then drunken creature was said to shriek throughout the night.
- So from you arch liberals to the arch conservatives, the shriek is the same.
- Stressed inward, one of the side plates buckled; air stole through the breach with a thin shriek.
- Nothing happened to falsify her desperate assertion that the shriek was the delusion of a vivid dream.
- Clark can make his guitar scream and shriek and do things that take you back to the golden era of blues based guitar rock.
- Just as I said it, there was a shriek from the bathroom, shortly followed by splashes, shouting and more crying .... ah, everything back to normal again.
- An old woman, called Williamson, a sad reprobate, in attempting to do so, set her foot within the fender, which the captain had converted into a repository for empty glass bottles; the smash that ensued was echoed by a shriek from the whole party.
- But it is the locomotive, independent of the shriek, that is his abomination; whereas a man less sensitive to sights, and (if possible) more sensitive to sounds, might pardon the cutting up of the landscape were his ear-drum spared from splitting.
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