Example sentences for: shriek

How can you use “shriek” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A harsher note is sounded by the shrike , whose name is related to screech and shriek .

  • "This is the funny part," you shriek, elbowing me.

  • She also said, at nearly a shriek, that the Statue of Liberty was "awesome."

  • When she hears herself saying that being with her husband is "like being with papa," she pauses for a second, then flashes her eyes with something close to a recognition of primal sin, utters a sound somewhere between a hysterical giggle and a shriek of horror, and rushes across the room as if in flight from her own words.

  • That it is practiced so gleefully in this country and is the parrot shriek of the macho political opportunist sickens me, and yet moral reasoning seems to have no effect.


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