Those that were not killed outright, screeched piteously as they floated on the water.
She screeched in dismay, raising thick hands to heaven.
In the tangled leaves and vines hundreds of parrots screamed and screeched at them, while on all sides the monkeys threw sticks from the branches of the trees.
As soon as they found out there was something to eat they bobbed their heads and screeched and chattered in great excitement.
The raven screeched in the kitchen; Petrowitsch started at the noise, and desired Lenz, in an imperious voice, to kill the bird instantly.
Neither of them could utter a syllable, but the child screamed loudly, and the poultry in their coops screeched wildly, as if a weasel had come among them; then all was still, as still as death.
Its companions in the air screeched to it in vain; it paid no attention to their cries, but watched those who were at work, as if it had something very particular to communicate.
And now Pelle sniffed it afar off--Madame Rasmussen was tattling away to the huckster, and a voice screeched after her: "Madame Rasmussen!
Little Lasse laughed, and every time he laughed his sister screeched with delight in her cradle, as though she understood it all.
It wasn't a common cry, neither: it was screeched out, as if somebody was murdering him.
Mill and factory and boat and shop whistles tooted and screeched and howled demoniacally, with little agreement as to rhythm.
Nor by chance, if I can help it," screeched the crusty Peter.
So I went on into another bedroom, and the bird screechedout to me the very same words; and that room was all hung round on the walls with fine dresses of women.
But there was no rest in that house that night, for in a little while Matt screeched out that his bride was like a billy-goat all over.
The old hunks bellowed as though a knife were being stuck into him; but there was not a soul that cared about it, for the more he screeched the sooner he would be well, they thought.
All this the old lass screeched out as she bent over towards the bear.
Are you in a swoon, or are you dead, father,' she screeched out, and then she went on screaming and bewailing herself.
If we don't get our eye back this minute, you shall be both turned to stocks and stones,' screeched the trolls.
She screeched and said: "Paddy Kelly, take off your dog, and I'll make you a rich man.
When he came to the end of the verse he pretended to burst into a violent fit of sobbing and crying, and screeched out to his wife, "Mate!
This set it violently swinging backwards and forwards, but did not stop the parrot, who screeched out, "How delightful it is to be swung!
Then with one accord they screeched the war-whoop, and assailed the doors of the houses with axes and hatchets.
He screeched and she chopped; he screeched and she chopped; until he became an old man again and made the enigmatical confession: "I have transformed myself not once nor twice only.
Docchi," screeched Thorton, but there was no answer.
Finally it screeched softly and began to roll drunkenly away.
He screechedlike a frightened hen till he felt the point; then he was still, and lay staring at me while his life went out of his eyes.
And at last, when they had screeched themselves hoarse, they were quiet long enough to hear it.
Then all the others screeched at her like gulls frightened from their rock, and stopped silent in great fear to see what I would do about it.
That night, a steamer stopped at the little town; there was a storm of wind and rain, and the engine screeched and hissed.
The hornbeam tree, which first leaves out, was now the first to let fall its yellow leaves: there was a rustling and a low crackling in the wood, and only the hawk screeched above on the height.
It was ten minutes later when I screeched to a stop in front of the sports and gun store I'd remembered existed in Mayfair's first subdivision.
The fire trucks screeched to a stop before the blazing building at that instant, and her first words were drowned in the noise they made.
She kissed it and caressed it, but it screeched frightfully, and floundered about with its little arms and legs: IT evidently seemed little pleased.
A bold carrion hawk cocked his head on one side and screeched derisively and a big alligator, lifting his head cautiously above the surface of the lake, cast a baleful eye upon them and promptly submerged.
A shell screeched over them, exploding on the further side of a small hill to their left.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "screeched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
