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Example sentences for: shriek

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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.
She also said, at nearly a shriek, that the Statue of Liberty was "awesome."
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.
But the movie, directed by Paul Weitz from a first-time script by Adam Herz, made me and a lot of other adolescents-at-heart shriek with embarrassment.
A harsher note is sounded by the shrike , whose name is related to screech and shriek .