Screech

//skɹiːt͡ʃ//

"Screech" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The owl gave a loud screech.

Sami heard a screech.

He heard a car screech.

With a rattle and a screech, a tractor rolled through the field, knocking the grass flat with a giant red rolling pin.

A screech rang out through the air.

Ziri heard an ear-piercing screech.

Ziri heard the radio screech again.

Leonid heard a loud screech.

Leonid heard the screech again.

Magpies screech and blackbirds whistle.

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That the night owl should screech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty […]

"Have you not met them?" "No, I have met nothing but three cormorants, which were sitting on a bit of drift-wood screeching."

They said he had caused the fire in some way; be that as it may, he was screeching most horribly.

The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.

AS THE residents of the quiet Midlothian housing estate prepared for the day ahead, the early-morning stillness was disturbed by the sound of screeching brakes and slamming doors.

You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid screeched after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles Puyol, who gave it back again.

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