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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