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."

  • 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.

  • And, all the while, Yuri Bashmet goes threading his way across the foreground, a lonely man with an eerie and haunting sound, sometimes quietly shrieking, sometimes singing lyrically--a heartbreaking figure, heartbreakingly courageous--until, by the end, he seems to be quietly sobbing.

  • : "He tore off his clothes and went running through the office shrieking, 'I can't stand these earth tones.


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