Example sentences for: shrieking

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

  • In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."

  • , Freundlich's shrieking harpy of a wife, whom we hear only over the phone.)

  • The series relies too much on characters shrieking and running about.

  • When it is played badly, however, some listeners agree that there is a feline similarity to caterwauling , from the Middle English caterwawen , an uttering of a discordant shrieking, as from a cat.

  • As I understand the law, the court was considering how big a distance might be maintained between a woman going to the doctor and a shrieking Christian wishing to intimidate her.


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