Example sentences for: shrieked

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

  • I shrieked in horror, jerking my modem's cord out of the wall.

  • Grown women shrieked.

  • I wanted to be the onewhose leaving let the hall fall into silence--silence, which I have, from talking, learned to love.But what, when no one loved me, have I donebut talk, talk, talk until I've said, like Peter,the thing I shouldn't say or, as tonight,until I've said exactly what I've had to say.And as I hurtled home past dark, tires wailing,I howled with every song on the radio,screamed some teen-age stranger's stupid words,shrieked somebody else's rage, somebody's lovetill I could bear my own voice, and its silence.

  • shrieked the outraged eight-year-old.

  • An example: This morning after you left for work, I was playing with the baby on the couch and she was wiggling her fingers in the air in a way she considered menacing as she shrieked, "I am the dinosaur.


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