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Shriek
"Shriek" in a Sentence (19 examples)
When I lifted a potted plant in my garden, there were swarms of little insects crawling underneath, and I instinctively let out a shriek.
"Murder!", screamed the poor woman in a loud shriek.
The woman let out such a loud shriek that the house shook.
Don't shriek in my ear like that!
As soon as the lengthening shadows made her aware that the usual hour of the vespers chime was passed, she tore herself from her lover's arms with a shriek of despair, bid him adieu for ever, and, plunging into the fountain, disappeared from his eyes.
If you go to the cemetery at midnight, they say you can still hear the ghoul's shriek.
She tickled her and she let out an involuntary shriek.
"Isn't there a tap to turn the water on? How does this work?" "You've got to put coins in. The slot's here." "Unbelievable!" There followed a shriek, because the water that was now coming out of the shower was cold.
At Western Marine’s shipyard on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, machines shriek and sparks fly as workers turn hulking pieces of metal into gigantic ships.
A shadow falls on Kai. Instinct takes over and he rolls left. The Goshawk misses. Wings beat so close Kai feels the air move, hears the disappointed shriek next to his head.
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Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek?
Feebly ſhe ſhriekt, but ſo feebly indeed / That Britomart heard not the ſhrilling ſound.
It was the owl that shrieked.
At this she shriek'd aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
"[O]h, yes! the loon does shriek dreadfully - particularly when there's fine rain[.]"
In winter the place was deserted and, with cold damp wind from the sea shrieking in the telegraph wires, the general feeling could be one of desolation.
The ghostly owl, shrieking his baleful note.
She shrieked his name to the dark woods.
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