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Example sentences for "screeching"

Lexicographically close words:
screams; scree; screech; screeched; screeches; screed; screen; screened; screening; screenings
  1. Its screeching tone filled the air but the driver of the big auto-truck ahead gave no sign of heeding.

  2. Where she used to be singing she is screeching the same as a slate where you'd be casting sums!

  3. And his two aunts sitting in it and screeching to him not to run into danger!

  4. It's a very unkind thing you to go screeching that out before the King, that will maybe strike my head off!

  5. Timothy: Have a care now with your screeching would you split the drum of my ear?

  6. I know that words like these are in striking contrast with the usual public opinion on the subject, as well as with the mere screeching over poverty in which sentimentalists are in the habit of indulging.

  7. And through the hissing and screeching of the ice-laden wind he fancied that he could hear some one calling to him from afar.

  8. Something must be accomplished before its fury was spent; and he was glad when after each lull he heard again the moaning and screeching of it over the open spaces, and the slashing together of spruce tops where there was cover.

  9. It was too late to run, useless to evade, so he stood waiting while shrieking, screeching at every step, the Chinaman came on.

  10. Once more it was pandemonium in the power-house with the screeching of the red hot bearings and the glare of the crackling blue flames that meant the final and complete destruction of the plant.

  11. Monkeys were jabbering overhead; tree-frogs were quacking; parrots were chattering and macaws were screeching more loudly than all, as they flew over the topmost boughs.

  12. The walls echoed the screeching of the wheels as they slid upon the tracks.

  13. When it was set, Tom leaned from the cab and saw that they were bearing down upon the passenger train, its whistle screeching a warning.

  14. A fast little Rebel gunboat, called the Grampus, ran screeching away from the range of our guns.

  15. Dreadful as such a bombardment always is, the men of the 109th fairly gasped with relief when each screeching shell ended with a bang among the trees, for shells that landed there were in no danger of exploding that heap of ammunition.

  16. The discussion was at its height as the men made camp, when it was interrupted by a screeching roar overhead, followed almost instantaneously by a terrific crash in the field above their heads and to the south.

  17. Sure enough; they surrounded the boat in a twinkling, and shouting and screeching like so many demons, clambered over the gunwales until there was danger of swamping the craft.

  18. The shore was lined with women and children, who answered the shouts of their friends in the boats by running back and forth, screeching and yelling and dancing, as if unable to restrain themselves until the arrival of their victims.

  19. She was busy then until the train came screeching down upon the station, paused there while the conductor rushed in, got a thin slip of paper for himself and the engineer, and rushed out again.

  20. Grant pulled his horse to a restive stand before a group of screeching squaws, and laughed outright at the panic of them.

  21. Such a din of screeching and chattering as they instantly set up!

  22. Now they were all screeching at the top of their voices, then a sudden, dead silence ensued.

  23. They always come screeching round us in bad weather.

  24. In the best of spirits he skinned the rabbits and set them roasting, with an incidental commination of thae screeching deevils that had robbed them of the pork which would have been such a welcome accompaniment.

  25. Twas under the Dark Star we were born, and here we'll die and leave our bones to whiten in the sand, and the spirits of us will go screeching and scrauchling wi' the rest.

  26. And Wulfrey dreamed horribly all night of fighting helplessly with legions of screeching birds, and several times fought himself awake, and each time found Macro actively engaged in the same unprofitable business.

  27. But, in view of the screeching deevils already in possession, they forethoughtfully armed themselves with the weightiest clubs they could pick out of the raffle of the beach.

  28. It bounded here and there about the chicken house, and at first Dorothy could not tell what it was, while the screeching of the chickens nearly deafened her.

  29. The next minute it scrambled to its wheels and rolled away as fast as it could go, screeching with fear at the same time.

  30. What cursed hag is screeching high, Whilst crash goes all her crockery?

  31. Unless, perhaps, she sing her screeching song To a herd of wolves, that skulk athirst for blood.

  32. Annable picked up a piece of sod and flung it at the bird, saying: "Get out, you screeching devil!

  33. You see I wrote that screeching letter in a mood which won't come again for some time.

  34. As in church he dared not move during the sermon so now he felt that he must seem attentive, though her screeching denunciations flew past him like carrion birds.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "screeching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.