shriek

IPA: ʃrˈik

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.

(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.

Examples of "shriek" in Sentences

One sharp wild shriek is heard – and all is still!
But the shriek from the bed was not that of a man, but a boy.
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.
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.